candace
/ˈkæn.dɪs/
candace noun: title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.
Noun (1)
candace (plural candaces)
- Title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.
- Shanakdekhete's namesake was a candace of the 160s B.C.E. who appears to have been the first sole female ruler of Meroe; her name appears on the Meroitic hieroglyphs at Naga, among the earliest examples of Meroitic known.1995, Wilton Barnhardt, Gospel: A Novel, →ISBN, page 693
Proper noun capitalized: Candace
Candace (plural Candaces)
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- He aroſe and went on / and beholde a man off ethiopia which was gelded / and of grete auctoꝛite with Candace qune of the ethiopians / which had the rule off all her treaſure / cam to Ieruſalem foꝛ to pꝛaye.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts viij:[27–28], folio clxv, verso
- Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama.2021 April 10, AJ Willingham, “Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game”, in CNN
Noun (2) capitalized: Candace
Candace (plural Candaces)
- Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
- Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]2012, Hassan B. Abdelwahab, Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy, →ISBN
candace meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Gujarati
candace in Tamil
- கேண்டஸ்
candace in Bengali
- ক্যান্ডেস
candace in Malayalam
- കാൻഡേസ്
candace in Gujarati
- કેન્ડેસ
More languagesFewer languages
- candace in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାଣ୍ଡେସ୍, କ୍ଯ଼ାନଡେସ୍
- candace in Nepali
- क्यान्डेस
Forms of candace
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | candaces |
| alternative form | Candace |
| alternative form | kandake |
| alternative form | kentake |
| plural | Candaces |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Candaces |
| alternative form | Candice |
Origin of candace
See the entry Candace.
From Latin Candacē, from Ancient Greek Κανδάκη (Kandákē), from Meroitic 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 (kdke /kandakə/), a hereditary title of ancient queens of Napata (northern Sudan).
Questions about candace
- What does candace mean?
- Candace means title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.
- What is candace in Tamil?
- Candace in Tamil is கேண்டஸ். See Candace meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is candace?
- Candace can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce candace?
- Candace is pronounced /ˈkæn.dɪs/.
- What is the plural of candace?
- The plural of candace is candaces.
Words near candace in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: candace (page history and authors); Candace (page history and authors); candace (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); candace (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); candace (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); candace (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); candace (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); candace (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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