Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints.

More definitions
  • Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris

Examples

55 sentences
  1. The U.S. Republican Party wants to be the Christian ISIS.

    Американська Республіканська партія хоче бути християнською ІДІЛ. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

  2. What is ISIS?

    Що таке ІДІЛ? — deniko

    ruЧто такое ИГИЛ? — Balamax

    deWas ist ISIS? — mervert1

  3. ISIS is a terrorist organization.

  4. ISIS fighters isolated the cities they occupied from the world.

  5. ISIS terrorists are known for killing one another in the name of jihad.

Origin

From the genus name.

From the genus name.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: isises
Singularisis
Pluralisises

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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