Noun cairo has 2 senses
- Cairo - a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
--1 is a kind of town
--1 is a part of Illinois, Prairie State, Land of Lincoln, IL
- Cairo, Al Qahira, El Qahira, Egyptian capital, capital of Egypt - the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
--2 is a kind of national capital; port
--2 is a part of Egypt, Arab Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic
--2 has members: Cairene
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