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pharoah

pharoah is the misspelling of pharaoh.

Meaning of pharaoh

Noun

pharaoh (countable and uncountable, plural pharaohs)

  1. (historical) The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the "king" in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty
    • Instances: see Thesaurus:pharaoh
  2. (uncountable) The card game faro.
    • "I pray, when I play pharaoh at White's, that the cards fall as they have come to my hand in this large gamble," Anstis said.1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning gold

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Proper noun capitalized: Pharoah

Pharoah

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States, named after rancher O. J. Pharoah.

Questions about pharoah

What does pharoah mean?
Pharoah means a surname.
What is pharoah the misspelling of?
Pharoah is the misspelling of pharaoh.
What part of speech is pharoah?
Pharoah is a proper noun.

Words near pharoah in the dictionary

  1. pharmorubicin
  2. Pharmouthi
  3. pharms
  4. Pharmuthi
  5. pharo
  6. pharoah
  7. pharoahs
  8. pharoi
  9. pharological
  10. pharologist
  11. pharologists

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