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Definition of Nile
Nile

The great river of Egypt.

Related Definitions:
Great, Of, River, The


Nile Quotations

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James H. Breasted

Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.
Carol P. Christ

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
James H. Breasted

Nile Translations

Nile in Dutch is Nijl
Nile in French is Nil
Nile in Portuguese is Nilo
Nile in Spanish is Nilo


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