ARABIAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabian Sea mean? 

• ARABIAN SEA (noun)
  The noun ARABIAN SEA has 1 sense:

1. a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia

  Familiarity information: ARABIAN SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Arabian Sea"):

Gulf of Oman (an arm of the Arabian Sea connecting it with the Persian Gulf)

Arabian Gulf; Persian Gulf (a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between Iran and the Arabian peninsula; the Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world)

Strait of Hormuz; Strait of Ormuz (a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman)

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

Indian Ocean (the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south)

 Context examples 

A country in southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea, between India on the east and Iran and Afghanistan on the west and China in the north.

(Pakistan, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus)