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El Obeid

[ el oh-beyd ]

noun

  1. a city in the central Sudan: Egyptian army defeated by Mahdist forces 1883.


El Obeid

/ ɛl əʊˈbeɪd /

noun

  1. a city in the central Sudan, in Kordofan province: scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi (1883). Pop: 423 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The army had suffered much from want of water, but they had obtained plenty from a lake within three days' march from El Obeid.

Delen, situated five days' journey to the south of El Obeid, is on one of the smallest of the mountain ranges.

El Obeid is situated in the midst of a vast plain, which in the hot weather is just like a desert.

As we approached El Obeid, the rattle of the rifles, broken every now and then by the boom of a gun, became more and more audible.

Such was the end of the brave defenders of El Obeid, who, in truth, deserved a better fate.

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