GREAT ARABIAN DESERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Arabian Desert mean? 

• GREAT ARABIAN DESERT (noun)
  The noun GREAT ARABIAN DESERT has 1 sense:

1. a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT ARABIAN DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Meronyms (parts of "Great 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 ("Great 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)