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NAG HAMMADI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nag Hammadi mean? 

NAG HAMMADI (noun)
  The noun NAG HAMMADI has 2 senses:

1. a town in Upper Egyptplay

2. a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticismplay

  Familiarity information: NAG HAMMADI used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NAG HAMMADI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in Upper Egypt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Nag Hammadi" is a part of...):

Upper Egypt (one of the two main administrative districts of Egypt; extends south from Cairo to Sudan)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Nag Hammadi; Nag Hammadi Library

Instance hypernyms:

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)


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