Saïs

American  

[sey-is] / ˈseɪ ɪs /

noun

1. an ancient city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta: an ancient capital of Lower Egypt.

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Saïs British  

/ ˈseɪɪs /

noun

1. (in ancient Egypt) a city in the W Nile delta; the royal capital of the 24th dynasty (about 730–715 _bc ) and the 26th dynasty (about 664–525 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Séez, in the department of the Orne, is sometimes written Saïs, like the city of the Delta.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave

Practically all of his other published works are posthumous: his unfinished novel, Henry of Ofterdingen; a set of religious hymns; the beginnings of a "physical novel," The Novices at Saïs.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

When Cambyses conquered Saïs, Amasis had just been buried.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

"Disciples à Saïs, Les, et les Fragments de Novalis," 82-85.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro

My fore-arms are the fore-arms of Neith, the Lady of Saïs.

From Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir