DASHT-E-LUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dasht-e-Lut mean? 

• DASHT-E-LUT (noun)
  The noun DASHT-E-LUT has 1 sense:

1. a desert in eastern Iran

  Familiarity information: DASHT-E-LUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DASHT-E-LUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert in eastern Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Dasht-e-Lut; Lut Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Dasht-e-Lut" is a part of...):

Iran; Islamic Republic of Iran; Persia (a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil)

 Context examples 

The group of four geologists from Ural Federal University set out for the Lut desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, in search of evidence of meteorites - similar to the one that crashed to earth in an impressive fireball over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013.

(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)