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Definition: Soudan |
SoudanNoun1. A republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956. 2. A region of North Africa south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Soudan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Soudan \Sou*dan"\, noun[F.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SoudanSynonyms: Republic of the Sudan (n), Sudan (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Soudan |
| English words defined with "Soudan": Capparis spinosa ♦ Foolahs. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Soudan": Naphtuhim. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Soudan": Soldan, Sowdan. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Soudan" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Sudan). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Native-Industries in Soudan (1912) Lost in the Soudan (1910) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--The Mahdi or for the Victoria Cross--Scene 3d--War in the Soudan ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The war in the Soudan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Mali | On September 22, Soudan proclaimed itself the Republic of Mali and withdrew from the French Community. (references) |
Mali | As the colony of French Soudan, Mali was administered with other French colonial territories as the Federation of French West Africa. (references) | |
Mali | French military penetration of the Soudan (the French name for the area) began around 1880. Ten years later, the French made a concerted effort to occupy the interior. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
soudan | 17 |
mine soudan | 6 |
soudan mn | 6 |
mine soudan underground | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "Soudan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | sudán (Sudan). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | судан. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Soudan": soudans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: donas, nodus, sound. | |
-2 letters: ados, ands, anus, dona, dons, duns, duos, naos, nods, nous, onus, ouds, sand, soda, udos, undo. | |
-3 letters: ado, ads, and, don, dos, dun, duo, nod, nos, nus, ods, ons, oud, sad, sau, sod, son, sou, sun, udo, uns. | |
-4 letters: ad, an, as, do, na, no, nu, od, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: abounds, adnouns, astound, bausond, osmunda, soudans, unloads. | |
+2 letters: adjourns, aduncous, astounds, baudrons, candours, dinosaur, handouts, osmundas, outlands, outstand, pandours, poundals, rotundas, soundman, squadron, standout, subnodal, sudation, thousand, unsoaked, vanadous. | |
+3 letters: anhydrous, astounded, auditions, aunthoods, autodynes, cauldrons, custodian, dangerous, dinosaurs, downhauls, durations, eastbound, eudaemons, gourmands, humanoids, lotusland, meandrous, nonadults, noseguard, ombudsman, outdances, outstands, pauldrons, poundages, quadroons, quandongs, rigaudons, roundsman, soundable, southland, squadrons, staghound, standouts, subdeacon, sudations, thousands, unloaders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 64 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..- -.. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01100100 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u d a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0075 0064 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538187706780 |
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