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hegira

NOUN
  1. a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment

How To Use hegira In A Sentence

  • Tower of Zoraya, in Aldeire, in El Cenet, On the fifteenth day of the month of Saphar, Of the year of the Hegira 968. Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish
  • The year 653 of the Hegira, and the 1255 of Christ, coincide only with the 1557 of the aera or the epocha of the The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
  • It's funny that through all this, my absurd hegira, I have never thought about avoiding the police. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Of his narrative pieces the most remarkable is his _Revolt of the Tartars_, describing the flight of a Kalmuck tribe of six hundred thousand souls from Russia to the Chinese frontier: a great hegira or anabasis, which extended for four thousand miles over desert steppes infested with foes, occupied six months 'time, and left nearly half of the tribe dead upon the way. From Chaucer to Tennyson
  • This year 653 is one of the Hegira, the common epocha of the The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
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