pharaonic
adjUK /ˌfɛəɹeɪˈɒnɪk/ · US /ˌfɛɹeɪˈɑnɪk/
Etymology From Latin Pharaōn- (stem of Pharaō (“Pharaoh”)) + -ic, originally modelled on German pharaonisch.
1
Of or pertaining to a pharaoh.
2
Broadly Impressively large or luxurious.
- It could be argued there is a note of shared significance to both deaths. Both feel like reminders that the real divide, so starkly present at this Pharaonic sporting super-show, is between the powerful and the powerless.2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
- Mark Zuckerberg sculpts his pharaonic Hawaii compound. He and his ilk own the present.2023 December 28, Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
3
Tyrannical or brutally oppressive.
4
Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation.
- Derived terms
- pharaonically, pharaonic circumcision, postpharaonic