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ARABIAN DESERT

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia

Synonyms:

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Meronyms (parts of "Arabian Desert"):

Arabian Desert; Eastern Desert (a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea)

Nubian Desert (an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea)

Ar Rimsal; Dahna; Great Sandy Desert; Rub al-Khali (a desert in southern Saudi Arabia)

Sinai; Sinai Desert (a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt)

Syrian Desert (a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia)

Holonyms ("Arabian Desert" is a part of...):

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea

Synonyms:

Arabian Desert; Eastern Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Arabian Desert" is a part of...):

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert (a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia)

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