Crossword clues for nile
nile
- Shade of green named for a river
- Shade of green named for an African river
- Setting for "Aida"
- Rosetta is on it
- River where baby Moses was found
- River to Mediterranean
- River through Luxor
- River that runs through Egypt
- River past Memphis
- River of Pharaohs
- River near the Egyptian pyramids
- River in Hercule Poirot title
- River in Exodus
- River featured in "The Ten Commandments"
- Primary water source in Egypt
- Place for baby Moses
- Philae locale
- North-flowing river
- Moses was spotted on it
- Long river through Egypt
- Long African waterway
- Livingstone sought its source
- It's over 4,000 miles long
- It's more than 4,000 miles long
- Egyptian flower
- Egypt's primary source of water
- Cleopatra's waterway
- Cleopatra's favorite green shade?
- Cleopatra was queen of it
- Cairo waterway
- Cairo Opera House location
- Blue, Yellow, and White river
- Blue or White waterway
- African waterway
- "The Jewel of the ___"
- "Aida" environs
- ''The Jewel of the ___''
- ''Cleopatra'' setting
- Young Moses's river
- White or Blue in Sudan
- White or Blue in Egypt
- White or Blue ___
- White follower or green preceder
- Where young Moses was discovered
- Where the shadoof is used for irrigation
- Where the infant Moses was found
- Where Moses met Pharaoh
- Where many a felucca is sailed
- Where galleys floated
- Where Cleopatra's barge once sailed
- Where Cleopatra sailed
- Western border of the Nubian Desert
- Well, I'll be dammed!
- Waterway that's more than 4,000 miles long
- Water seen in Sudan
- Water seen in "The Ten Commandments"
- View from Luxor
- Victoria and Albert's river
- Very long river
- Title river in a mystery
- This one is in Africa
- Thebes' river
- The major river through Egypt
- The major Egyptian river
- Super-lengthy river
- Sudan crosser
- Stream near the Great Pyramids
- Spot for Cleopatra's barge
- South Sudan river
- Site of some feluccas
- Site of a Christie story
- Sight from Memphis
- Sight from Aswan Dam
- Shadoofs raise water from it
- Shade of blue named after a river
- Setting of a Poirot case
- Scene of a battle, 1798
- River whose flooding is celebrated in Egypt
- River where Moses was hidden as a baby
- River where down means north
- River where a Poirot mystery is set
- River west of the Arabian Desert
- River to Medit
- River through Uganda
- River through Tanzania
- River through Juba
- River that's more than 4,000 miles long
- River that flows through ten countries
- River that flows through nine countries
- River that flows through Egypt
- River that flows through 11 African countries
- River that drains Lake Victoria
- River teeming with crocodiles
- River target of the first Egyptian plague
- River setting for "Aida"
- River past the Sphinx
- River of shadoofs
- River of Aswan
- River of ancient Thebes
- River near the Red Sea
- River known for its length
- River into the Mediterranean
- River in the Wilbur Smith book "River God"
- River in Rwanda
- River in Ethiopia
- River in "Aida"
- River for the young Moses
- River for baby Moses
- River featured prominently in "Aida"
- River explored by David Livingstone
- River draining 11 countries
- River delta where the Rosetta Stone was found
- River by the Karnak temple
- River by the Great Pyramid of Giza
- River beneath the 6th October Bridge
- River at Aswan
- River (which is originally blue and white)
- Rhoda Island surrounder
- Ptolemy believed the Mountains of the Moon was its source
- Producer/Chic guitarist Rodgers
- Producer Rodgers
- Pioneerof the ___ (sire of American Pharoah)
- Opera setting for "Aida"
- One with a big mouth in Africa?
- Nubia irrigator
- Northern-flowing river
- North-flowing African river
- North African river
- Nalubaale Power Station location
- Music hyphenate Rodgers
- Moses' river
- Moses drifted down it
- Merowe Dam river
- Memphis's river
- Memphis' river
- Major water source for Sudan
- Major river to the Mediterranean
- Major Egyptian water source
- Major Egyptian river
- Major African river
- Luxor's water
- Luxor waterway
- Luxor river
- Luxor divider
- Longest flower?
- Longest flower in the world
- Long river that flows through Sudan
- Long river running through Egypt
- Long river ending in Egypt
- Long dammed river
- Livingstone explored it
- Line (anag)
- Lily of the ___ (plant in the amaryllis family)
- Lake Victoria's outlet
- Lake Victoria outflow
- Lake Victoria and Lake Albert drainer
- Khartoum's waters
- Khartoum waterway
- Juba's river
- Juba's "White" river
- John Speke's exploration
- Its Egyptian name simply means "river"
- Its branches are White and Blue
- It's called Al-Bahr in Arabic
- It's Blue or White in Africa
- It's about 4,150 miles long
- It's 4150 miles long
- It's 4,132 miles long
- It separates Cairo from Giza
- It passes Luxor Temple
- It has banks in Cairo
- It flows through Egypt
- It flows past Memphis
- It flows past Giza
- It flows for 3,485 miles
- It begins in Burundi
- Iconic producer/guitarist Rodgers
- Ibis's home
- Home for hippos
- Hapi was the ancient Egyptian god of its annual flooding
- Felucca's place
- Extremely long river
- Elephantine surrounder
- Elephantine Island site
- Egypt's waterway
- Egypt's principal river
- Egypt's major river
- Egypt's main river
- Dr. Livingstone's focus
- Delta in which the Rosetta Stone was found in 1799
- Death locale in a Christie title
- Crocodile river
- Color similar to oyster gray
- Cleopatra's course
- Cleopatra Queen of the ____
- Cleo's barge carrier
- Christie's river
- Christie's ''Death on the ___''
- Christie novel setting
- Cairo/Giza separator
- Cairo-to-Aswan route
- Cairo sight
- Blue river
- Blue or White ___
- Battle of the ___ (Ptolemy XIII's defeat)
- Baby Moses' river
- Baby Moses was hidden in its reeds
- Baby Moses was found by its brink
- Baby Moses river
- Aswan High Dam site
- Aswan High Dam river
- Aswan Dam location
- Aswan area
- Asp's home
- Aida's river
- Agatha Christie's "Death on the ___"
- Agatha Christie murder setting
- Agatha Christie murder locale
- African river that two capitals are on
- African river that runs through ten countries
- A shade of green
- A big river
- 4,100+ mile river that drains 11 countries
- 4 160-mile-long river
- 1798 battleground
- "The Ten Commandments" river
- "Ten Commandments" water
- "River" blue
- "Get Lucky" guitarist Rodgers
- "Egypt was the gift of the ___": Herodotus
- "Egypt was the gift of the ___" (Herodotus)
- "Death on the ___" (Agatha Christie novel)
- "Blue" or "White" African river
- "Antony and Cleopatra" water
- "Antony and Cleopatra" river
- 'Blue' river
- 'Aida' river
- ''Blue'' or ''White'' river
- ''Aida'' backdrop
- ___ Rodgers (record producer who cowrote the Daft Punk hit "Get Lucky")
- ___ Basin Initiative (African partnership launched in 1999)
- Irishman called out, visibly cold in shade
- Engineer left ground in shade
- Pale aqua
- Kind of blue
- Memphis's locale
- Home for some crocodiles
- Cairo's river
- Memphis locale
- Christie murder locale
- "Cleopatra" setting
- Where Moses rafted
- River through Khartoum and Cairo
- Aswan's river
- Shade of green or blue
- Aswan Dam locale
- Bank-washer in Cairo
- Pharaohs' river
- World's longest river
- Longest river in the world
- Cleo's lane
- Kind of crocodile
- Egypt's main water supply
- Blue ___
- Shade of blue or green
- Site of annual floods
- Christie's "Death on the ___"
- "Cleopatra" backdrop, at times
- Rosetta's river
- "Blue" or "White" river
- Blue preceder or follower
- Christie murder setting
- Africa's longest river
- Khartoum's river
- Sight in Memphis
- It rises in Lake Victoria
- River the Aswan Dam dams
- Blue or White follower
- Where young Moses was found
- Christie setting
- Cairo's waterway
- Course in African history
- It went through Memphis
- Cataract site
- River past Luxor
- Rosetta's locale
- River with Blue and White tributaries
- River in an Agatha Christie title
- West ___ virus
- Alexandria's river
- Home for hippopotamuses
- 4,100-mile-long river
- Pharaoh's river
- Green or blue shade
- Setting for an Agatha Christie novel
- View from Abu Simbel
- Where Aida sings "O patria mia"
- Sahara irrigator
- Scene of classic flooding
- "Where's my serpent of old ___?": "Antony and Cleopatra"
- Egyptian lifeline
- River near the Sphinx
- River near the Great Pyramids
- Setting for an Agatha Christie mystery
- Lord Nelson, the Hero of the ___
- River near the Pyramids
- View from Memphis
- Locale of a Horatio Nelson victory
- See 54-Across
- Cleopatra's river
- The Imbaba Bridge spans it
- River through two world capitals
- Lotus-laden waterway
- River near the Valley of the Kings
- Title river in a Christie mystery
- Setting for a classic Agatha Christie mystery
- Abu Simbel's waterway
- Site of cataracts
- Locale in Exodus
- Where baby Moses was found
- River through ancient Nubia
- River along which 56-Across is located
- River that flows south to north
- Elephantine Island is in it
- River that feeds Lake Nasser
- River that turned to blood in Exodus
- Water source for 11 countries
- One of its sources is Lake Tana
- Flows northern through Africa into the Mediterranean
- The Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- World's longest river (4187 miles)
- "With 66-Across, Egyptian agricultural area"
- Stream past Memphis
- 28-Across locale
- Egypt's lifeline
- Blue or White river
- Luxor's river
- River near Khartoum
- Literary death scene
- Green shade
- "The great river" of the Bible
- It's White and Blue
- Aswan Dam site
- Type of blue or green
- "My Castle on the ___," 1901 song
- Egyptian river
- African irrigator
- Blue or White stream
- Colorful river
- Green color
- Where sudd grows
- El Bahr
- African river to the Mediterranean
- Ugandan river
- River of Egypt
- African flower?
- Where shoebills fly
- What the Aswan dams
- Hue, also called boa
- White or Blue river of Africa
- Lake Nasser's river
- Egyptian flower?
- Lake Victoria outlet
- Lake Nasser site
- "Cleopatra" locale
- Cairo's site
- Nelson's victory site: 1798
- Where Aswan Dam is
- Aswan's site
- Locale of a Christie book
- Lake Nasser feeder
- Ibis's habitat
- African river on Saint-Exupéry's journey
- Historic stream
- Blue or White body
- Where Nelson triumphed: 1798
- Egyptian delta
- Pale yellow-green
- Cleo's river
- Green tint
- Aswan Dam river
- Ludwig subject
- Egypt's river
- River in northeast Africa
- Ibis's milieu
- Ancient queen's milieu
- Longest river in Africa
- "Death on the ___," 1978 film
- Its source was discovered by John H. Speke
- It flows from Lake Victoria
- Ramses' river
- One place to see an ibis
- Where a queen was barged
- Emil Ludwig subject
- River of two colors
- Where the shoebill flies
- River at Memphis
- Site of Aswan Dam
- A sight at Abu Simbel
- Green tone
- Yellowish green
- Site of a Christie tale
- Type of crocodile
- Historic river
- River to the Mediterranean
- Where Cleo barged in?
- ___ green
- Medit. feeder
- Milieu of the sacred ibis
- Pale green shade
- Sudd's milieu
- River through Sudan
- Snack bishops leave for African banker
- Flower, one planted by lake in Northumberland?
- Flower girl regularly seen in Tyneside
- Long-distance runner in Spain with nothing on
- Runner has zero energy
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's last Illinois performance. The end
- River's inlet almost diverted
- River’s wiggly line
- River of eastern Africa
- River in Egypt
- River having nothing to East
- River essential for Egyptian, I learn
- River at Luxor
- Irishman delivered flower
- A blue or white flower
- Blue shade
- Greenish blue
- Blue-green shade
- Bluish green
- Green hue
- Blue-green hue
- River through Nubia
- River through Egypt and Sudan
- Where Moses floated
- Exodus locale
- __ blue
- Locale in a Christie title
- River past Thebes
- River of Memphis
- River in a Christie title
- Mediterranean feeder
- Longest African river
- "Aida" backdrop
- Waterway in a Christie title
- Pink Floyd "The ___ Song" off "Soundtrack From the Film More"
- Lake Nasser filler
- Aswan Dam's river
- "Aida" river
- __ green
- River through Cairo
- Kind of green
- Famous river
- Cleo's waterway
- Cairo river
- Word in an Agatha Christie title
- View from the Valley of the Kings
- Thebes splitter
- The Luxor Bridge spans it
- Sudan divider
- Rodgers of Chic
- River west of the Nubian Desert
- River of Cairo
- River from Lake Victoria
- Long African river
- Lengthy African river
- Lake Nasser supplier
- Khartoum river
- Karnak's river
- It has banks in Africa
- Giza's river
- Egyptian waterway
- Egypt divider
- Blue or green shade
- Aswan High Dam's river
- African lifeline
- "Cleopatra" river
- Where baby Moses floated
- Watery "Cleopatra" setting
- View from Karnak
- The Aswan dams it
- Sudan splitter
- Sudan river
- South-to-north flowing river
- Site for Cleopatra's barge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nile \Nile\ (n[imac]l), n. [L. Nilus, Gr. Nei^los.] The great river of Egypt. Nile bird. (Zo["o]l.)
The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
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The crocodile bird.
Nile goose (Zo["o]l.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under Goose, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one of the world's oldest surviving place names, from a Semitic root nahal "river." Unnamed in Old Testament, it is always merely "the river" (Hebrew yeor).
Wiktionary
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Nile (, Eg. en-Nīl, Std. an-Nīl; , P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Iteru; Biblical Hebrew: היאור, Ha-Ye'or) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world. It is 6,853 km (4,258 miles) long. The Nile is an "international" river as its water resources are shared by eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt. In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt and Sudan.
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile. The White Nile is considered to be the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile itself. The Blue Nile, however, is the source of most of the water and silt. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi. It flows north through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and South Sudan. The Blue Nile (, ʿĀbay) begins at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and flows into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet just north of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows north almost entirely through the Sudanese desert to Egypt, then ends in a large delta and empties into the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian civilization and Sudanese kingdoms have depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population and cities of Egypt lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan, and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along riverbanks.
In the ancient Egyptian language, the Nile is called Ḥ'pī or Iteru, meaning "river", represented by the hieroglyphs shown on the left (literally itrw, and ' waters' determinative). In Coptic, the words piaro (Sahidic) or phiaro (Bohairic) meaning "the river" (lit. p(h).iar-o "the.canal-great") come from the same ancient name.
The English name Nile and the Arabic names en-Nîl and an-Nîl both derive from the Latin and the Ancient Greek . Beyond that, however, the etymology is disputed. One possible etymology derives it from a Semitic Nahal, meaning "river". The standard English names "White Nile" and "Blue Nile", to refer to the river's source, derive from Arabic names formerly applied only to the Sudanese stretches which meet at Khartoum.
Nile is an American technical death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, United States, formed in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian/ Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and ancient art, as well as the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
The Nile, in northeast Africa, is one of the world's longest rivers.
Nile may also refer to:
Nile is a 2004 BBC Television documentary that tells the history and natural history of the Nile.
Nile (born Jenée Grevious) is an American singer. In 2002 she released her debut album, Born. She listed family, spirituality and nature as influences in her music. Her music has been described as Bristolian and may be thought of as trip hop.
Usage examples of "nile".
At the stated season of the melting of the snows in Armenia, the River Mygdonius, which divides the plain and the city of Nisibis, forms, like the Nile, an inundation over the adjacent country.
While he scoured the land along the Nile, behind him the railhead reached Akasha and his rudimentary camp was transformed into an impregnable fortress and staging station, guarded by artillery and Maxim machine-gun detachments.
In his Nile green frock coat, he looked like a particularly foppish frog, thought Amy disgustedly.
Mountain Lion up the valley of the Nile, until they came to el Baban, The Gates, and found the Saracen host drawn up for battle in the gut of the low sandy hills.
They were intoxicated by his wealth and power: his treasury, the Beit el Mai, held gold, jewels and millions in specie, the spoils of his conquests and the sack of the principal cities of the Nile.
Sometimes he assisted the officer of the Intelligence Department, in interviewing fugitives who had arrived from Berber and other points on the river, from Kordofan, or from villages on the White Nile.
Diocletian, on his side, opened the campaign in Egypt by the siege of Alexandria, cut off the aqueducts which conveyed the waters of the Nile into every quarter of that immense city, and rendering his camp impregnable to the sallies of the besieged multitude, he pushed his reiterated attacks with caution and vigor.
A vessel of uncommon strength and capaciousness was provided to convey this enormous weight of granite, at least a hundred and fifteen feet in length, from the banks of the Nile to those of the Tiber.
Sao in the neighborhood of Lake Chad, there is both an end to the civilizing trail which had led from the valley of the Nile and the beginning of another civilization.
Red Sea to the Nile, and had descended that river as far as Alexandria, it was poured, without delay, into the capital of the empire.
Nile for an advance upon Berber was far less formidable than it would have been, had it been led forward against Merawi and Dongola directly after the capture of Metemmeh.
Trench heard of a man slipping out from Wadi Halfa, crossing the Nile and wandering with the assumed manner of a lunatic southwards, starving and waterless, until one day he was snapped up by a Mahdist caravan and dragged to Dongola as a spy.
In order to do fieldwork he needed a competent dragoman, or guide and interpreter, who could oversee his thieving workmen and hand out baksheesh up and down the Nile.
It extended from Karnak to Luxor and, turning in a vast loop at the Nile front, countermarched over the dromos and ended at the tremendous white-walled temple of Amen.
This was Niles Zarratt, the promoter who was raising funds for Durand to continue with his robot experiments.