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Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: pharaoh(Noun) The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty.
Pharaoh, (from Egyptian per Ê¿aa, âgreat houseâ), originally, the royal palace in ancient Egypt. The word came to be used metonymically for the Egyptian king under the New Kingdom (starting in the 18th dynasty, 1539â1292 bce), and by the 22nd dynasty (c. 945âc. 730 bce) it had been adopted as an epithet of respect.