Nile
pronunciation
How to pronounce Nile in British English:
UK [naɪl]
How to pronounce Nile in American English:
US [naɪl]
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- Noun:
- the world's longest river (4180 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
Word Origin
- Nile
- one of the world's oldest surviving place names, from a Semitic root nahal "river." Unnamed in Old Testament, it is always merely "the river" (Hebrew yeor).
Example
- 1. Competition for nile water is acute between egypt and ethiopia .
- 2. Moreover , new uses are being found for the nile itself .
- 3. State-run nile tv showed firefighters battling a blaze at the scene .
- 4. Most people infected with west nile have no symptoms and recover completely .
- 5. In 1999 west nile virus infected its first american , in new york .