SUEZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Suez mean? 

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

1. a city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUEZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northeastern Egypt at the head of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern end of the Suez Canal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Suez" 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)

 Context examples 

The boat was now somewhere south of the Suez Canal on her way to Australia.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)