candace

See also: Candace

English

Alternative forms

• Candace
• kandake, kentake

Etymology

See the entry Candace.

Noun

candace (plural candaces)

1. 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.