Definitions for Aboukir

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Aboukir A·bou·kir

Spelling: [ah-boo-keer, ab-oo-]

IPA: /ˌɑ buˈkɪər, ˌæb u-/

Aboukir is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in Aboukir (abikoru).

Definitions for Aboukir

noun

1. Abukir.
2. a bay in N Egypt, between Alexandria and the Rosetta mouth of the Nile: French fleet defeated here by British fleet 1798.
3. Abu Qir.
4. a village of N Egypt, in the Nile River delta: Battle of the Nile near here (1798).

Examples for Aboukir

But, finding their squadron lying in Aboukir Bay, he determined to destroy it.

(p. xxxii) The fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay on the 2nd of March 1801.

The exact site is not ascertained, but it was not far from Aboukir.

Before the battle of Aboukir the Court at Naples had been trembling for its existence.

After the defeat of his fleet at Aboukir, Napoleon determined to invade Syria.

Instead of doing this, however, he anchored in Aboukir Bay, and there waited.

Nevertheless, the news of Aboukir did not wholly please him.

So far as I can discover, he has been in every naval fight since Aboukir Bay.

Scarcely a man was saved from (p. 026) the Cressy, the Aboukir, or the Hogue.

He won two battles at Aboukir, in Egypt, the last of which cost him his life.