Ramses
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Ramses
see origin at Raamses ( def. )
Example Sentences
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One of the cases that will be dismissed after a plea agreement involved a high-ranking officer, 54-year-old Ramses Patron.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
On Tuesday, I entered the wide-open atrium of the sleek, sand-colored building designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, a space so vast that even its 30-foot-tall red granite statue of Ramses II seems dwarfed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
At the centre of the main atrium stands an 83-tonne statue of Ramses II, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 66 years and presided over its golden age.
From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025
He would then jump on another bus to Tanta, before changing again to get to the Ramses bus station in Cairo where there would be another switch before finally reaching his destination.
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025
Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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