Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ashur   /ˈæʃər/   Listen
Ashur

noun
1.
Chief god of the Assyrians; god of military prowess and empire; identified with Babylonian Anshar.  Synonym: Ashir.
2.
An ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria; just to the south of the modern city of Mosul in Iraq.  Synonyms: Assur, Asur.





WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Ashur" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentiles, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller
... a faculty consisting of a Professor of Divinity, who performed the duties of President, a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and three tutors. Joel Barlow was a classmate, and so were Oliver Wolcott, Zephaniah Smith, Ashur Miller, and others who occupied high judicial positions afterward in the young republic. In Dr. Stiles's Diary there is an entry June 14, 1778, Webster's senior year. "The students disputed forensically this day a twofold question; whether the destruction of the Alexandrian ...
— Noah Webster - American Men of Letters • Horace E. Scudder


Words linked to "Ashur" :   urban center, Ashir, Irak, Republic of Iraq, Iraq, Semitic deity, Assyria, Asur, Assur, city, metropolis, Al-Iraq


Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com