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Nilus

Syllables: Ni·lus/ˈnaɪ̯.ləs/

Nilus is the obsolete form of Nile.

Meaning of Nile

Proper noun

(the) Nile

  1. A large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest river in the world; its basin covers Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt, flowing north through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea.
    • The seven mouths of the Nile then, from east to west, are the Pelusian, the Mendesian, the Bucolic, the Sebennytic, the Saïtic, the Bolbitine, and the Canopic. Such is the account of Heredotus.1844, Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, Larcher's notes on Herodotus
  2. A township in Ohio, United States, named after the river; in full, Nile Township, Scioto County, Ohio.
  3. A locality in Northern Midlands council area, eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Words that rhyme with Nilus

Questions about Nilus

What is Nilus the obsolete form of?
Nilus is the obsolete form of Nile.
How do you pronounce Nilus?
Nilus is pronounced /ˈnaɪ̯.ləs/.

Words near Nilus in the dictionary

  1. nilsystems
  2. niltava
  3. niltavas
  4. niludipine
  5. Nilufar
  6. Nilus
  7. nilutamide
  8. nilutamine
  9. nilvadipine
  10. nim
  11. nim-witted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nilus (page history and authors); Nile (page history and authors). 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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