Egyptian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Egypt or its people.
Egyptian architecture.
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Obsolete. of or relating to the Roma, a traditionally nomadic ethnic group.
noun
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Egyptians
plural
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a native or inhabitant of Egypt.
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the extinct Afroasiatic language of the ancient Egyptians. Egypt.
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a printing type having square serifs.
adjective
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of, relating to, or characteristic of Egypt, its inhabitants, or their dialect of Arabic
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of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Egyptians, their language, or culture
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(of type) having square slab serifs
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archaic of or relating to the Gypsies
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Egypt
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a member of an indigenous non-Semitic people who established an advanced civilization in Egypt that flourished from the late fourth millennium bc
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the extinct language of the ancient Egyptians, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions, the earliest of which date from before 3000 bc. It was extinct by the fourth century ad See also Coptic
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a large size of drawing paper
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an archaic name for a Gypsy
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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Egyptianismnoun
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Egypticitynoun
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anti-Egyptianadjective
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non-Egyptianadjective
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pro-Egyptianadjective
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pseudo-Egyptianadjective
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trans-Egyptianadjective
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Etymology
Origin of Egyptian
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English Egipcien, Egipcian, Gypcian, from Old French egyptien, egipcien; replacing Middle English Egiptish, Old English Egiptisc, Egyptisc, Ægiptisc
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They include a pair of Mamluk Egyptian wooden doors inlaid with camel bone, and a 13th-century mosaic from Turkey’s Seljuk dynasty that is adorned with Quranic verses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Ancient Egyptian artwork frequently portrays kings striking enemies with maces, but Campbell noted that the royal attendants buried at Abydos were not enemy combatants.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
On our flight from Istanbul, we meet an Egyptian family of 10 coming from Cairo for Trabzonspor's Uefa Conference League game against Freiburg.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
The beauty of Cleopatra, the ancient Egyptian queen, supposedly changed all of history because she attracted a Roman leader.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
“What’s embarrassing about that? I have an Egyptian friend who might know his family.”
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
Egyptians enlist AI “SpongeBob” to vent over living conditions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The victims, aged between 7 and 46, were mostly Iraqi Kurds, but also included Afghans, Ethiopians and Egyptians.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
This World Cup may have ended in heartbreak, but it has also left Egyptians believing that this team belongs among football's biggest nations.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
“It pulls the Suez Canal and the Egyptians in, it brings Saudi further in.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 2026
More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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