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Pharaoh vs Malignant - What's the difference?

pharaoh | malignant |

As nouns the difference between pharaoh and malignant

is that pharaoh is while malignant is .

As an adjective malignant is

harmful, malevolent, injurious.

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

    malignant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
  • (medicine) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue.
    • malignant diphtheria
    a malignant tumor

    Antonyms

    * (medicine) benign

    Related terms

    * nonmalignant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1823 , The Retrospective Review (volume 7, page 11)
    • As devout Stephen was carried to his burial by devout men, so is it just and equal that malignants should carry malignants
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