PERSIAN GULF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Persian Gulf mean? 

• PERSIAN GULF (noun)
  The noun PERSIAN GULF has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PERSIAN GULF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERSIAN GULF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Arabian Gulf; Persian Gulf

Instance hypernyms:

gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)

Meronyms (parts of "Persian Gulf"):

Bahrain; Bahrain Island; Bahrein; Bahrein Island (an island in the Persian Gulf)

Holonyms ("Persian Gulf" is a part of...):

Arabian Sea (a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia)

 Context examples 

Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)