Synonyms:
Cairo, Al_Qahira, El_Qahira, Egyptian_capital, capital_of_Egypt
Meaning: the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
Synonyms:
Cairo
Meaning: a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Usage examples
The largest is known as the Pyramid of Cheops and is nearest Cairo.
"Mr. Dalmain, this letter has an Egyptian stamp, and the postmark is Cairo.
There are seventy-seven of these pyramids altogether. Three of them are located less than a dozen miles from Cairo, the others being up the river Nile a half day's journey.
It was, indeed, during this time that the world-famous cities of Alexandria and Cairo were built as well as the magnificent mosques that are the pride of all Islam, but these were all the work, not of the people themselves, but of the foreigners by whom they were held in thraldom, and are therefore monuments not of the country's glory but of its shame.