Definitions for Aswan

Aswan As·wan

Spelling: [as-wahn; Arabic ahs-wahn]
IPA: /ˈæs wɑn; Arabic ɑsˈwɑn/

Aswan is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Aswan (aansw).

Definitions for Aswan

noun

  1. Ancient Syene. a city in SE Egypt, on the Nile.
  2. a dam near this city, extending across the Nile. 6400 feet (1950 meters) long.

Examples for Aswan

There is no railway between Aswan and Halfa, all traffic being conducted on the river.

Landing in Africa in 1786, he went up the Nile as far as Aswan.

Clashes also broke out in Alexandria, Aswan, Luxor, and Assiut.

The dam has been constructed of granite ashlar taken from quarries near Aswan.

The Nile here has not the wild and imposing aspect which it assumes lower down, between Aswan and Philae.

She also wrote Divieto di Soggiorno [Rejected], and The Bride of Aswan, which won the International Fenice Europe Prize.

Presently a forest of palm trees, the last on that side, announces Aswan and Nubia.

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