NILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nile mean? 

• NILE (noun)
  The noun NILE has 1 sense:

1. the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization

  Familiarity information: NILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Nile; Nile River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Nile" is a part of...):

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)

Republic of Uganda; Uganda (a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)

Derivation:

Nilotic (of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it)

 Context examples 

I shall want all my old Nile men at my back.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even more imminent, the White Nile — one of the two main tributaries of the Nile — could lose its source waters in just a decade.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)

In the United States, some mosquitoes spread West Nile virus.

(Insect Bites and Stings, NIH)

ddhCTP may be able to inhibit all flaviviruses, a class of viruses that includes Zika as well as dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and hepatitis C.

(Scientists Discover How Antiviral Gene Works, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The exception is the Middle East along the Nile Valley, where it represents the most common form of carcinoma because of the endemic nature of schistosomiasis.

(Bladder Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Flaviviruses include dengue virus, Zika virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Powassan virus and several other viruses.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top government officials are buried.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The tombs date back about 3,500 years and are located on the west bank of the river Nile.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and there was hardly a rivulet so small as the Thames at London-bridge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Thus, in addition to the cousins Dorothy and Florence, Martin encountered two university professors, one of Latin, the other of English; a young army officer just back from the Philippines, one-time school-mate of Ruth's; a young fellow named Melville, private secretary to Joseph Perkins, head of the San Francisco Trust Company; and finally of the men, a live bank cashier, Charles Hapgood, a youngish man of thirty-five, graduate of Stanford University, member of the Nile Club and the Unity Club, and a conservative speaker for the Republican Party during campaigns—in short, a rising young man in every way.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)