candace
See also: Candace
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]See the entry Candace.
Noun
[edit]candace (plural candaces)
- Title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.
- 1995, Wilton Barnhardt, Gospel: A Novel, →ISBN, page 693:
- Shanakdekhete's namesake was a candace of the 160s B.C.E. who appears to have been the first sole female ruler of Meroe; her name appears on the Meroitic hieroglyphs at Naga, among the earliest examples of Meroitic known.