Meaning of Egyptland | Babel Free

Definitions

The land of the Egyptians; Egypt

nonstandard, rare

Examples

“Go down, Moses, / Way down in Egyptland / Tell old Pharaoh / To let my people go.”

“It required no stretch of imagination to see the trials of the Israelites as paralleling the trials of the slaves, Pharaoh and his army as oppressors, and Egyptland as the South.”

“This was a fortunate development as otherwise work on a new land they were starting at the time, Egyptland, would have been stopped and the whole universe likely destroyed as a result.”

“Two of the numbers, “Alexandria” and “Fatima,” fall into the same “oriental” category as “Egyptland,” but both offer a lot more musical interest.”

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