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kandake

kandake is the alternative form of candace.

Meaning of candace

Noun

candace (plural candaces)

  1. 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

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Forms of kandake

pluralkandakes

Questions about kandake

What is kandake the alternative form of?
Kandake is the alternative form of candace.

Words near kandake in the dictionary

  1. Kancoona
  2. Kanda
  3. Kandahar
  4. Kandahdhoo
  5. kandak
  6. kandake
  7. kandakes
  8. kandaks
  9. Kandal
  10. Kandalaksha
  11. Kandaru

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