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SINAI PENINSULA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sinai Peninsula mean?
• SINAI PENINSULA (noun)
The noun SINAI PENINSULA has 1 sense:
1. a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
Familiarity information: SINAI PENINSULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Sinai; Sinai Peninsula
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Sinai Peninsula"):
Sinai; Sinai Desert (a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt)
Mount Sinai; Sinai (a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments)
Holonyms ("Sinai Peninsula" is a part of...):
Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)
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