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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a town in Upper Egypt;

2. a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism;
[syn: Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Nag Hammadi
    n 1: a town in Upper Egypt
    2: a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from
       Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the
       town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct
       works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of
       Gnosticism [syn: Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library]