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Definition of Omdurman

1. Noun. A city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum.

2. Noun. A battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese.

Definition of Omdurman

1. Proper noun. The largest city in Sudan. Part of the capital, Khartoum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Omdurman

Omaha hold 'em Omahas Oman Omani Omani Arabic Omani monetary unit Omani rial Omanis Omar Omar Bradley

Omar Khayyam Omar Nelson Bradley Omayyad Ombredanne Omdurman Omega-amidase Omega Centauri Omenn Omenn's syndrome Omid

Omiya Omkaar Ommaya Ommiad Omnipotent Omniscient Omomyid Omomyid group Omotic

Literary usage of Omdurman

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

1. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan by Jemera Rone, Brian Owsley, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1996)
"In addition, he ordered some 230 male prisoners released, also excluding those convicted of homicide.64 Conditions worsened at omdurman and other prisons. ..."

2. Egypt in Transition by Sidney Low (1914)
"CHAPTER IV omdurman THE transmutation of omdurman is as strange in its way as that ... omdurman has had a curious history. Some thirty years ago it was an ..."

3. The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1902)
"The Dervishes guarded the northern end of the channel by five forts, four on the western, and one on the eastern bank. From this point to omdurman there is ..."

4. Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving by Rudolf Carl Slatin (1896)
"They secretly elaborated their plans in omdurman, and gradually took into their confidence several of their friends and fellow- tribesmen. ..."

5. Fire and Sword in the Sudan: A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving by Rudolf Carl Slatin (1896)
"They secretly elaborated their plans in omdurman, and gradually took into their confidence several of their friends and fellow- tribesmen. ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"A JOURNEY FROM omdurman TO MOMBASA VIA LAKE RUDOLF." By Brevet-Major HH AUSTIN, CMG, DSO, RE ON October 27, 1900, I was offered the command of a survey ..."

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