NEGEV DESERT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Negev Desert mean? 

• NEGEV DESERT (noun)
  The noun NEGEV DESERT has 1 sense:

1. a desert in southern Israel

  Familiarity information: NEGEV DESERT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGEV DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert in southern Israel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Negev; Negev Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

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

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

 Context examples 

For example, in the Negev Desert along the Egypt-Israel border, the Israeli side's dunes are stabilized by vegetation; on the Egyptian side, however, the dunes are moving because overgrazing has left them barren.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)