Meanings
- nonstandardrareThe land of the Egyptians; Egypt
Go down, Moses, / Way down in Egyptland / Tell old Pharaoh / To let my people go.
1937, David Adams Leeming, Jake Page, Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology3 more examples
It required no stretch of imagination to see the trials of the Israelites as paralleling the trials of the slaves, Pharaoh and his army as oppressors, and Egyptland as the South.
1941, Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee, The Negro caravan: writings by American NegroesThis was a fortunate development as otherwise work on a new land they were starting at the time, Egyptland, would have been stopped and the whole universe likely destroyed as a result.
2004, R. J. Nimmo, The Ancient Egyptian EnneadTwo of the numbers, “Alexandria” and “Fatima,” fall into the same “oriental” category as “Egyptland,” but both offer a lot more musical interest.
2004, Bruce Vermazen, That Moaning Saxophone
Origin
- Old EnglishEgipta land
- Middle EnglishEgiptelond
- EnglishEgyptland
From Middle English Egiptelond, Egipte-lond, from Old English Egipta land, Egypta land (“the land of the Egyptians”), equivalent to Egypt + land. Compare Dutch Egypteland, Icelandic Egyptaland.
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