UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United Arab Emirates mean? 

• UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (noun)
  The noun UNITED ARAB EMIRATES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "United Arab Emirates"):

Abu Dhabi; United Arab Emirates's capital (a sheikhdom of eastern Arabia and capital of the United Arab Emirates)

Dubai (port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf)

Holonyms ("United Arab Emirates" is a part of...):

Arabia; Arabian Peninsula (a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources)

Gulf States (the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf)

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)

Holonyms ("United Arab Emirates" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

 Context examples 

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf, between Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.

(Oman, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)