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Cheops

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Che·ops  (kps) Originally Khu·fu (kf) 2590-2567 b.c.
Second king of the IV Dynasty of Egypt, renowned as the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Cheops [ˈkiːɒps]
n
(Biographies / Cheops (?2613 bc-?2494 bc) M, Egyptian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) original name Khufu. Egyptian king of the fourth dynasty (?2613-?2494 bc), who built the largest pyramid at El Gîza
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Noun1.Cheops - Egyptian Pharaoh of the 27th century BC who commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza
Khufu
Pharaoh, Pharaoh of Egypt - the title of the ancient Egyptian kings


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Each side of the Pyramid of Cheops is about as long as the Capitol at Washington, or the Sultan's new palace on the Bosporus, and is longer than the greatest depth of St.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
As I gazed upon this monument, doubtless the work of an extinct and forgotten race, thus buried in the green nook of an island at the ends of the earth, the existence of which was yesterday unknown, a stronger feeling of awe came over me than if I had stood musing at the mighty base of the Pyramid of Cheops.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
So that when Simeon and his associates arrived on the summit of the tower called Adoni-Bezek-the loftiest of all the turrets around about Jerusalem, and the usual place of conference with the besieging army-they looked down upon the camp of the enemy from an eminence excelling by many feet that of the Pyramid of Cheops, and, by several, that of the temple of Belus.
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