NILE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nile River mean? 

• NILE RIVER (noun)
  The noun NILE RIVER 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 RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NILE RIVER (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 River" 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)

 Context examples 

Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.

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