Omdurman

American  

[om-door-mahn] / ˌɒm dʊərˈmɑn /

noun

1. a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.

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Omdurman British  

/ ˌɒmdɜːˈmɑːn /

noun

1. a city in the central Sudan, on the White Nile, opposite Khartoum, with which it forms the country's largest city; scene of the Battle of Omdurman (1898), in which the Mahdi's successor was defeated by Lord Kitchener's forces. Pop: recent estimates vary between 1 000 000 and 3 000 000

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Example Sentences

"When we went inside the Omdurman morgue, there were still many bodies. And there hadn't been any electricity for a long time -- you can imagine the state," Pozo Gil said.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

A few weeks ago, he decided to relocate with his family to Khartoum and rented a house in Omdurman, a city that forms one of the capital’s three parts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Lengthy appendices compare its versions of episodes such as the Battle of Omdurman and the Boer War with earlier accounts Churchill gave to newspapers and magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Strand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Elsewhere in Omdurman, Hassan Bachir laid the table as neighbours rolled out a mat, all waiting for the sun to set.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

He imagined himself as the young Winston Churchill covering Kitchener’s battle at Omdurman, a battle of superior versus inferior arms, except that, unlike Churchill, he sided with the moral victor.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie