Aswan

Definition: Aswan

Aswan

Noun

1. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; site of the Aswan High Dam.

"Aswan" is a common misspelling or typo for: swan.

Synonyms: Aswan

Synonyms: Assouan (n), Assuan (n). (additional references)

Aswan (population 200,000) is a city in the south of Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. It is a busy market and tourist center.

Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of early 2001, the last rain here was 6 years ago. In Nubian settlements they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.

See also: Aswan Dam, Elephantine, Nag Hammadi

Crosswords: Aswan

English words defined with "Aswan": Assouan, Assuan ♦ Lake Nasser ♦ Nasser. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Aswan": Egyptian emerald. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Aswan" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Quechua (more).

Domain	Title
Books	Sociocultural factors influencing the prevalence of diarrheal disease in rural Upper Egypt : an ethnographic study in two villages of Aswan : final report submitted to UNICEF (reference) Globetrotter Travel Map Egypt: Includes Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza Pyramids Site, Karnak Site, Luxor, Port Said, Saqqara Site and Thebes Site) (reference) Cadogan Cairo Luxor Aswan (Cadogan Guides) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		These highway roads include the Alexandria to Al Fayoum road (199 kilometers); Assiut to al Fayuom (210 kilometers); Al Fayoum to Aswan (1850 kilometers); Deirut, a province of Assiut to Al Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert (260 kilometers); Al Kharga Oasis to Shark Al Owaynate, far southwest (500 kilometers); Deirut to Aswan (433 kilometers); Salloom, on the Libyan border, to Wadi Al Natroun (length not declared). (references)
Economic History	Egypt	Sediment is now obstructed by the Aswan High Dam and retained in Lake Nasser. (references)
	Egypt	Other cities--Alexandria (6 million), Aswan, Asyut, Port Said, Suez, Ismailia. (references)
	Egypt	The first includes the Cairo, Alexandria, Aswan, South Sinai, and Luxor governorates. (references)
Travel	Egypt	Hospital facilities in Luxor and Aswan are inadequate or are nonexistent at most other ports of call. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Aswan" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.86% of the time. "Aswan" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	62.86%	22	74,468
Adjective (general or positive)	34.29%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	2.86%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

1. Aswan , Egypt
Location: 24.05 North, 32.53 East
Population (2000 estimate): 244020
Time Zone: 2 GMT
Country: Egypt

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Expression: Aswan

Expressions using "Aswan": aswan Dam ♦ aswan High Dam. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Aswan": aswan-just.
	Ending with "Aswan": pre-aswan.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aswan

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
aswan egypt	263
aswan	66
aswan dam	43
aswan dam high	27
aswan hotel	23
aswan emoe.org	17
aswan island	4
aswan dam egypt	3
aswan dam soviet union	3
aswan map	3
aswan dam picture	2
aswan emoe org	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Aswan

Misspellings
	"Aswan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aasman, Abswap, Aescwine, Apsewac, Asang, assan, Assman, Assmann, Aswad, Azwar, Hasawa, Jaswant, Oswyn, Paswan, Safwat, Sajwaj, Sakwa, Sawant, Saywun. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Aswan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-n-s-w"
	-1 letter: anas, ansa, awns, sawn, snaw, swan, wans.
	-2 letters: aas, ana, awa, awn, naw, saw, wan, was.
	-3 letters: aa, an, as, aw, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-n-s-w"
	+1 letter: bwanas, jawans, nawabs, seawan.
	+2 letters: ajowans, anyways, awakens, handsaw, kwanzas, narwals, seawans, seawant, swagman, swanpan, wangans, weasand.
	+3 letters: awayness, chainsaw, gangways, handsaws, laneways, manwards, narwhals, nowadays, pawnages, rainwash, runaways, seawants, shwanpan, swanpans, unawares, wakandas, wanigans, wannabes, wantages, warrants, weasands, weazands.
	+4 letters: asswaging, awakeners, awareness, boatswain, brainwash, canewares, chainsaws, mackinaws, nanowatts, narwhales, oarswoman, parawings, reawakens, shwanpans, slantways, standaway, swampland, sweatband, trainways, wagonages, wahcondas, waistband, wannigans, warfarins, warplanes, washbasin, washerman, washstand, washwoman, wasteland, wavebands, waxplants, yardwands.
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