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Egyptian vs Isis - What's the difference?

egyptian | isis |

egyptian

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  • (obsolete) A gypsy.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
    • The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians , or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.

    Derived terms

    * walk like an Egyptian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.

    • Derived terms

    * Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thorn

    Related terms

    * Egypt

    External links

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    isis

    English

    (wikipedia Isis)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.
  • (UK, Oxford) The River Thames.
  • (astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
  • (rare) (female)
  • * 1924 , Zora Neale Hurston, Drenched in Light :
    • Isis had crawled under the center table with its red plush cover with little round balls for fringe.
  • * 1995 , Iain Banks, Whit :
    • 'Beloved Isis ,' Elias grinned, 'would you kindly cast some light into the poor occluded mind of our brother here on the matter of the co-essential nature of the body and the soul?'
    Related terms
    * Isiac * Isidian * Isidora * Isidore

    Etymology 2

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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