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new kingdom

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables
new k-ing-dom
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Egypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.

Etymology

Calque of German Neues Reich, eventually displacing New Empire, an older calque of the same term. Coined in the 1840s as part of a periodization of Ancient Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

Inflected Forms

the New Kingdom (canonical)

Synonyms

New Empire

Questions

What does new kingdom mean?
Egypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.
Where does new kingdom come from?
Calque of German Neues Reich, eventually displacing New Empire, an older calque of the same term. Coined in the 1840s as part of a periodization of Ancient Egyptian history into Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

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