Menes

American  

[mee-neez] / ˈmi niz /

noun

1. flourished c3200 b.c., traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.

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Menes British  

/ ˈmiːniːz /

noun

1. the first king of the first dynasty of Egypt (?3100 _bc ). He is said to have united Upper and Lower Egypt and founded Memphis

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Example Sentences

“My family is under that bridge,” Menes said, referring to a cousin, his wife and their newborn who recently met up in a small border town in Texas.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021

Then fine dining stints with chefs Walter Manzke and Gary Menes, and then a kind of street food epiphany, in which he swapped white tablecloths for a sometimes illegal taco cart.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

Menes said he thought about getting a lawyer but decided fighting the government would be a waste of time.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2016

True, one of the evening’s most winning performers, the frisky juggler and acrobat David Menes, occasionally comes larking onstage and announces, “Konstantin is dead!,” referring, presumably, to the doomed young playwright in “The Seagull.”

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012

Apries, and Amasis, make up 8,650 years, and since the Persians took Egypt in 525 B.C., the beginning of the reign of Menes still falls in the year 9175 B.C.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max