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Definition of Soudan
1. Noun. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956.
Group relationships: Arab League
Generic synonyms: African Country, African Nation
Terms within: Darfur, Kordofan, Capital Of Sudan, Khartoum, Nyala, Port Sudan, Omdurman, Libyan Desert, Nubian Desert, Nile, Nile River
Group relationships: Africa
Member holonyms: Sudanese
2. Noun. A region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Omdurman, Omdurman
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region
Group relationships: Africa
Definition of Soudan
1. n. A sultan.
Definition of Soudan
1. soldan [n -S] - See also: soldan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soudan
Literary usage of Soudan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"His influence with the natives of the soudan unluckily proved to be of no avail,
and he was soon himself besieged in Khartoum by the Mahdi's forces. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"Some of this information may probably have a very important bearing upon the
future course of events in the soudan, and I therefore propose to discuss it in ..."
3. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"His Journal abounds with statements fixing the responsibility for the abandonment
of the soudan on the British Government. I maintain that this view is ..."
4. The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum: Printed from the by Charles George Gordon, Alfred Egmont Hake (1885)
"ORGANISATION OF THE soudan. 1. His Excellency, El Zubair'Pasha, shall be the
Governor (or Ruler) of the soudan; he shall have the rank of ..."
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