high dam

1. 1.

   one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt

   SynonymsAswan High Dam

   Broaderdam

   Part ofEgypt

Questions about high dam

What does high dam mean?

high dam means "one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt".

What is another word for high dam?

Close synonyms include Aswan High Dam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is high dam a common word?

high dam is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.