Euphrates Definition

yo͝o-frātēz
pronoun

The river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.

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Origin of Euphrates

  • From Ancient Greek Εὐφράτης (Euphrátēs), from Old Persian (Ufrātu), from Elamite [script?] (ú-ip-ra-tu-iš). Related is Akkadian [script?] (purattu) (cf. Classical Syriac ܦܪܬ (P(ə)rāṯ)).

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Euphrates Sentence Examples

  • The two sources together drain the region south as the Euphrates drains the region north of the Taurus mountains.

  • Water traffic on the Euphrates and canals was early very considerable.

  • In early times the Euphrates was important as a boundary.

  • At an early age he entered the cloister; and in 423 he became bishop of Cyrrhus, a small city in a wild district between Antioch and the Euphrates, where, except for a short period of exile, he spent the remainder of his life.

  • There is, however, little travel of this sort on the Euphrates in comparison with the amount on the Tigris.

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