English

Alternative forms

• Candice

Proper noun

Candace ‎(plural Candaces)

1. A female given name.
   • 1611, Bible (KJV), Acts 8:27–28:

     and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning,

Noun

Candace ‎(plural Candaces)

1. Alternative letter-case form of candace (a Nubian queen).
   • 2012, Hassan B. Abdelwahab, Influence (Supremacy) of Religion on Sudan's Foreign Policy (ISBN 1467883182):

     Regardless of this treaty, Nubian attacks on Lower Nubia continued and—as was mentioned before—Strabo recorded the attack of a Candace of Kush on Elephantine and Philae, in which the Nubians looted the towns […]

English

Alternative forms

• Candace
• kandake, kentake

Noun

candace ‎(plural candaces)

1. Title of any Nubian (Kush) queen or queen mother.
   • 1995, Wilton Barnhardt, Gospel: A Novel (ISBN 0312119240), 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.