Definition of Memphis

1. Noun. Largest city of Tennessee; located in southwestern Tennessee on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Tennessee, Tn, Volunteer State

2. Noun. An ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo).

Definition of Memphis

1. Proper noun. A city of ancient Egypt. ¹

2. Proper noun. The largest city in the state of Tennessee ¹

3. Proper noun. The name of several towns or cities in the US. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Memphis

Melville Bell
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
Melvin
Melvin Calvin
Memaw
Memaws
Member of Parliament
Members of Parliament
Membracidae
Memel
Memnon
Memorial Day
Memphian
Memphis
Memphite
Memphites
Memphre
Men in Black
Menachem Begin
Menai Strait
Menaka
Menander
Mencius
Mencken
Menckenian
Mende
Mendel
Mendel's first law

Literary usage of Memphis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"In the proper Egypt, Am- mianus enumerates memphis among the four cities, ... 16 ;) and the name of memphis appears with distinction in the Roman Itinerary ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"In the proper Egypt, Ammianus enumerates memphis among the four cities, ... 16), and the name of memphis appears with distinction in the Roman Itinerary and ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"On the 29th of May, 1889, after the lapse of four terms, the Kansas City, Fort Scott [3O1] and memphis Railroad Company filed its petition and bond for the ..."

4. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"Tlie tempi? of Л pu was one of tlie most noted structures of memphis It stood opposite the southern portico of the U-mple of Puh ; and P.saiu- ..."

5. The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789-1878 by Robert W. Coakley (1996)
"memphis—May 1866 The riot that broke out in memphis, Tennessee, ... During the war memphis had served as a collection depot for all black soldiers drafted ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"By LEWIS SHANKS, MD, of memphis, Tenu. THE uncertainty which still exists as to the origin and mode of propagation of pestilential cholera, its extensive ..."

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