Definitions for Memphis

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Memphis Mem·phis

Spelling: [mem-fis]

IPA: /ˈmɛm fɪs/

Memphis is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in Memphis (ehimmps).

Definitions for Memphis

noun

1. a port in SW Tennessee, on the Mississippi.
2. a ruined city in Lower Egypt, on the Nile, S of Cairo: the ancient capital of Egypt.
3. a group of international designers and architects, formed in the 1980s and based in Milan, whose work is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometric shapes, and unconventional, often playful, designs.

adjective

1. of or relating to this group or its style of design.

Origin of Memphis

the name was allegedly suggested to Ettore Sottsass, one of the group's founders, by the Bob Dylan song “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” on the evening of December 11, 19

Examples for Memphis

Ptah of Memphis comes to the front in the earliest dynasties.

Memphis begins to pop up in the later chapters, and I wince at every mention because I know that is where the story will end.

Now, the Memphis congressman is one of only a handful of white Southerners in his caucus and the once Solid South is deep red.

Locally, he followed B. B. King, the Memphis blues guitar master, and spent considerable time with him.

Memphis is hardly the only city that has started tackling the backlog.

If the great cities Thebes and Memphis lay near to us, it would be different.

He concluded that he was going back to Montgomery by way of Memphis.

A spokesperson for the Memphis police department did not return requests for comment on this story.

We stayed an entire day at Memphis, and gave two performances there.

The Memphis shipper gets his check for $4,840, and is out of the transaction.