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Egyptian

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Noun

1. egyptian

a native or inhabitant of Egypt

2. egyptian

the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC

Adjective

3. egyptian

of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language

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Egyptian

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adjective
1. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of Egypt, its inhabitants, or their dialect of Arabic
2. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Egyptians, their language, or culture
3. 
(of type) having square slab serifs
4. archaic
of or relating to the Gypsies
noun
5. 
a native or inhabitant of Egypt
6. 
a member of an indigenous non-Semitic people who established an advanced civilization in Egypt that flourished from the late fourth millennium bc
7. 
the extinct language of the ancient Egyptians, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions, the earliest of which date from before 3000 bc. It was extinct by the fourth century ad
See also Coptic
8. 
a large size of drawing paper
9.  an archaic name for a Gypsy

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Egyptian

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adjective
1. 
of Egypt, its people, or their culture
2. 
of the language of the ancient Egyptians
noun
3. 
a person born or living in Egypt
4. 
the Afroasiatic language spoken by ancient Egyptians

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Egyptian

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n.
1.
a. A native or inhabitant of Egypt.
b. A person of Egyptian ancestry.
2. The now extinct Afro-Asiatic language of the ancient Egyptians.
adj.
1. Of or relating to Egypt or its people or culture.
2. Of or relating to the language of the ancient Egyptians.

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