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Isis

1

[ ahy-sis ]

noun

, Egyptian Religion.
  1. a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.


ISIS

2

[ ahy-sis ]

noun

  1. Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria): a radical Sunni Muslim organization whose aim is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the region encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, and southeastern Turkey.

Isis

1

/ ˈaɪsɪs /

noun

  1. the local name for the River Thames at Oxford
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Isis

2

/ ˈaɪsɪs /

noun

  1. an ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cow's horns, between which was the disc of the sun; wife and sister of Osiris
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Isis1

< Latin < Greek Îsis < Egyptian 'st

Origin of Isis2

First recorded in 2010–15; from Arabic al-Sham, an ancient territory known in English as the Levant, an area on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean
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Example Sentences

But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.

“We quietly did,” Reed previously told The Daily Beast of removing ISIS.

“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.

But there is no consensus about what the attrition of ISIS looks like.

Breaking the will of ISIS, the military argues, is not a statistic.

Isis it positive that the papers were put in 100 that top drawer that Miss Carrington now has open?

Isis, the wife and sister of Osiris, was a sort of sun goddess, representing the productive power of Nature.

Isis, the consort of Osiris, who with him presided at the judgment of the dead, was scarcely less venerated.

Passing on we find a small temple to the Egyptian god Isis, and this was the very first object to be discovered.

The green island of Philæ also is engulfed, and of the beautiful temple of Isis built upon it only the upper portion is visible.

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