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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A country in North Africa and East Africa.
Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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name
A minor city in Lamb County, Texas, United States, apparently named after the African region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A traditional Korean punch, made from boiled rice flour cakes and honeyed water, often consumed on holidays.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Soudan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
noun
a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Republic of the Sudan, Soudan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: African country, African nation
History
Derived from Arabic سُودَان (sūdān, “black people”), plural of أَسْوَد (ʔaswad).
Borrowed from Korean 수단(水團) (sudan).
Across languages
105 source translations are retained for this English entry.
