Ramesside
adjective, noun
Ramesside is an adjective meaning “Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Ramesside period of ancient Egyptian history, named such after its eleven pharaohs named Ramesses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-M-E-S-S-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Ramesside mean?
adjective
- 1
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Ramesside period of ancient Egyptian history, named such after its eleven pharaohs named Ramesses.
Ramesside Egypt
noun
- 1
Any of these eleven pharaohs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Ramesside
- more Ramesside comparative
- most Ramesside superlative
- Ramessid
- Ramessides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Ramesside?
Ramesside appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Ramesside come from?
From French Ramesside, from Ramsès (“Ramesses”) + -ide (“-id: forming dynastic names”). Doublet of Ramessid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).