Giza

American  

[gee-zuh] / ˈgi zə /

Or Gizeh

noun

1. a city in northern Egypt: a suburb of Cairo across the Nile; the ancient Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx are located nearby.

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Giza British  

/ ˈɡiːzə /

noun

1. See El Gîza

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Example Sentences

Oleksandr Usyk will return to the ring in May when he defends his WBC heavyweight title against former kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The museum, a monumental structure overlooking the Giza Plateau, contrasts sharply with the colonial-era, cramped Egyptian Museum in central Cairo.

From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025

"We hope the Grand Egyptian Museum will usher in a new golden age of Egyptology and cultural tourism," says Ahmed Seddik, a guide and aspiring Egyptologist by the pyramids on the Giza Plateau.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

The kites are not exactly the Pyramids of Giza.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

To hold up ten stories of stone and brick, however, the pyramids would have to be immense, the basement transformed into a Giza of stone.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson