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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization;
[syn: Nile, Nile River]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nile \Nile\ (n[imac]l), n. [L. Nilus, Gr. Nei^los.]
   The great river of Egypt.
   [1913 Webster]

   Nile bird. (Zool.)
   (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
   (b) The crocodile bird.

   Nile goose (Zool.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under
      Goose, 2.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Nile
    n 1: the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward
         through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile
         River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first
         great civilization [syn: Nile, Nile River]