SYENE

Meaning of SYENE in English

/suy ee"nee/ , n.

ancient name of Aswan .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

SYENE — geographical name — see aswan
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SYENE — — see aswan
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SYENE — properly Seventh a town of Egypt, on the frontier of Cush or Ethiopia, (Ezekiel 29:10; 30:6) represented by the present …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
SYENE — a bush; enmity
Bible Names English vocab
SYENE — Function: geographical name ― see ASWÂN
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SYENITE — noun Etymology: Latin Syenites (lapis) stone of Syene, from Syene, ancient city in Egyptian Date: circa 1796 an igneous rock …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ASWÂN — or ancient Syene geographical name city S Egypt on right bank of the Nile near site of dam built 1898-1902 …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ASWĀN — City (pop., 1996 est.: 219,017), southeastern Egypt. It lies on the Nile River just north of Lake Nasser . In …
Английский словарь Британика
SYENITE — ˈsīəˌnīt noun ( -s ) Etymology: Latin Syenites ( lapis ), from Syenites of Syene (from Syene, ancient city in …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SYENITIC — (a.) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.
Английский словарь Webster
SYENITE — (n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called …
Английский словарь Webster
SYENITIC — ( a. ) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SYENITE — ( n. ) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SYENITE — — syenitic /suy'euh nit"ik/ , adj. /suy"euh nuyt'/ , n. a granular igneous rock consisting chiefly of orthoclase and oligoclase …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ASWAN — /as"wahn/ ; Arab. /ahs wahn"/ , n. 1. Ancient, Syene . a city in SE Egypt, on the Nile. 246,000. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SYENITE — noun Etymology: Latin Syenites ( lapis ) stone of Syene, from Syene, ancient city in Egyptian Date: circa 1796 : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SYENITIC — adj relating to syene; as, syenitic inscriptions. 2. syenitic ·adj relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.
Webster English vocab
SYENITE — noun orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at syene, in upper egypt, and now called …
Webster English vocab
SYENITE — [ 'sʌɪənʌɪt ] ■ noun Geology a coarse-grained grey igneous rock composed typically of alkali feldspar and hornblende. Derivatives syenitic …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SYENITE — [sy.e.nite] n [L Syenites (lapis) stone of Syene, fr. Syene, ancient city in Egypt] (ca. 1796): an igneous rock composed …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PAUSANIAS — flourished AD 143, 176; b. Lydia [now in Turkey] Greek traveler and geographer whose Periegesis Hellados (Description of Greece) is …
Britannica English vocabulary
ERATOSTHENES OF CYRENE — born c. 276 BC, Cyrene, Libya died c. 194, Alexandria, Egypt Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet, the first man …
Britannica English vocabulary
ASWAN — also spelled Assuan, or Assouan, muhafazah (governorate), Upper Egypt, embracing the Nile floodplain and immediately adjacent territories. Its area is …
Britannica English vocabulary
SYENITE — n. a grey crystalline rock of feldspar and hornblende with or without quartz. øøsyenitic adj. [F sy÷nite f. L Syenites …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SYENITE — n. a grey crystalline rock of feldspar and hornblende with or without quartz. syenitic adj. [ F syénite f. L …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SYENITE — n. a grey crystalline rock of feldspar and hornblende with or without quartz. Derivatives: syenitic adj. Etymology: F sy{eacute}nite f. …
Oxford English vocab
ASWAN — n. City (pop., 1996 est.: 219,017), southeastern Egypt. It lies on the Nile River just north of Lake Nasser . …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ON — (abode or city of the sun), a town of lower Egypt, called BETH-SHEMESH in (Jeremiah 43:13) On is better known …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
NILE — (blue, dark), the great river of Egypt. The word Nile nowhere occurs in the Authorized Version but it is spoken …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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