ARABIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabia mean? 

• ARABIA (noun)
  The noun ARABIA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources

  Familiarity information: ARABIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Arabia"):

Muscat and Oman; Oman; Sultanate of Oman (a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil)

Katar; Katar Peninsula; Qatar; Qatar Peninsula (a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia (an absolute monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia; vast oil reserves dominate the economy)

Najd; Nejd (a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formerly an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Hedjaz; Hejaz; Hijaz (a coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

United Arab Emirates (a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; rich in oil reserves)

Republic of Yemen; Yemen (a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990)

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

Meronyms (members of "Arabia"):

Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Domain member region:

ameer; amir; emeer; emir (an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia))

Holonyms ("Arabia" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

Arabian (relating to or associated with Arabia or its people)

 Context examples 

An archipelago in the Persian Gulf, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia.

(Bahrain, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, southeast of Saudi Arabia.

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus)

Norway, Brunei and Saudi Arabia have all flagged that they wish to be an exporter of hydrogen around the world.

(Cars Powered by New Fuel Type Tested in Australia, VOA)

A large terrestrial monkey found in Africa and Arabia, it is the largest non-hominid member of the primate order.

(Baboon, NCI Thesaurus)

To bracket the time period when the fresh shallow valleys in Arabia Terra formed, scientists started with age estimates for 22 impact craters in the area.

(Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others, NASA)

Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)

Wilson and colleagues found evidence of these features in Mars' northern Arabia Terra region.

(Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others, NASA)