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Definition of Arabian desert
1. Noun. A desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea.
Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Arab Republic Of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic, Great Arabian Desert
2. Noun. A desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia.
Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Arabia, Arabian Peninsula
Terms within: Eastern Desert, Nubian Desert, Ar Rimsal, Dahna, Great Sandy Desert, Rub Al-khali, Sinai, Sinai Desert, Syrian Desert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arabian Desert
Literary usage of Arabian desert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"... of the Obelisk — Minerals of the arabian desert— Doubtful Origin of Egyptian
Jasper—Petrifactions—Dates and ..."
2. True Stories of the Great War: Tales of Adventure--heroic Deeds--exploits by Francis Trevelyan Miller (1917)
"RUSSIAN COUNTESS IN THE arabian desert Adventures of Countess ... as Told in Her
Diary I—ON THE GREAT arabian desert ONE of the most striking of all the ..."
3. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1858)
"Division of the plain — Syrian or arabian desert — Great Mesopotamia!! valley.
3. Features of the mountain region — Parallel chains — Salt lakes. 4. ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"Whe,n, iu truth, between Joppe, and the Arabian, desert, ... There are, indeed,
a few small towns upon the sea coasts of the arabian desert, if it was these ..."
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