ARABIAN PENINSULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arabian Peninsula mean? 

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

1. a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARABIAN PENINSULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Arabian Peninsula"):

Muscat and Oman; Oman; Sultanate of Oman (a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil)

Katar; Katar Peninsula; Qatar; Qatar Peninsula (a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf)

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Saudi Arabia (an absolute monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in southwest Asia; vast oil reserves dominate the economy)

Najd; Nejd (a central plateau region of the Arabian Peninsula; formerly an independent sultanate until 1932 when it united with Hejaz to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Hedjaz; Hejaz; Hijaz (a coastal region of the western Arabian Peninsula bordering on the Red Sea; includes both Mecca and Medina; formerly an independent kingdom until it united with Nejd to form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

United Arab Emirates (a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; rich in oil reserves)

Republic of Yemen; Yemen (a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990)

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert (a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia)

Meronyms (members of "Arabian Peninsula"):

Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Domain member region:

ameer; amir; emeer; emir (an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia))

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)