I. -pshən adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Middle English Egipcian, from Old French egipcien, adjective & noun, from Egipte Egyptian (from Latin Aegyptus, from Greek Aigyptos ) + Old French -ien -ian
1. : of or relating to Egypt, the Egyptians, or the Egyptian language
Egyptian architecture
Egyptian conquest
2.
[from the reference in Exod 10:22 to a plague of darkness visited upon Egyptian]
: extreme , intense — usually used in the phrase Egyptian darkness
II. noun
( -s )
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: Middle English Egipcien, Egipcian, from Middle French egipcien
1. : a native or inhabitant of Egypt
2. : the Afro-Asiatic language of the ancient Egyptians from earliest times to about the 3d century A.D. — compare coptic , demotic egyptian , middle egyptian , new egyptian , old egyptian ; see afro-asiatic languages table
3. : the ancient Egyptian system of writing in any of its forms — see demotic , hieratic , hieroglyphic
4. obsolete : gypsy
5.
[so called from the fact that Cairo is a principal city]
: a native or inhabitant of southern Illinois — used as a nickname
6. often not capitalized : a heavy typeface having little contrast between thick and thin strokes and thick squared serifs