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Pharaoh vs Maat - What's the difference?

pharaoh | maat |

As a noun pharaoh

is .

As a proper noun maat is

an ancient egyptian goddess, the personification of truth, order, and righteousness, symbolized by a feather.

pharaoh

English

(wikipedia pharaoh)

Alternative forms

* pharao

Noun

(en noun)
  • The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
  • (uncountable) The card game faro.
  • * 1945 , Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold
    • "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.

    Derived terms

    * pharoah ant * pharaonic

    maat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
  • * 2007 , William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing (page 226)
    • A lot of my maats went west.
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