Wadi Halfa
a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.
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How to use Wadi Halfa in a sentence
The Egyptian frontier had been set back as far north as Wadi-Halfa.
My Memoirs | Marguerite SteinheilProkesch copied one in the ruins of Wadi Halfa, splendid in blue and gold, with a serpent wound round it.
I have seen his likeness enshrined in wattle huts at Omdurman and Wadi Halfa.
With Manchesters in the East | Gerald B. HurstWadi Halfa was the military station, Tewfikieh a little frontier town to the north separated from Halfa by a mile of river-bank.
The Four Feathers | A. E. W. MasonCalder was the one man in Wadi Halfa who could claim something like intimacy with Durrance.
The Four Feathers | A. E. W. Mason
British Dictionary definitions for Wadi Halfa
/ (ˈwɒdɪ ˈhælfə) /
a town in the N Sudan that was partly submerged by Lake Nasser: an important archaeological site
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