Synonyms:
Arabian_Peninsula, Arabia
Meaning: a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
Usage examples
And Arabia?"
So he loaded four ships and set sail for Arabia.
Yes! they were good to do that, they said, so they set sail with a fine breeze, and got to Arabia in three-and-twenty hours.
As in Arabia, Egypt, and throughout ancient Europe and elsewhere, the moon god of Sumeria was regarded as the "friend of man".
She never wished it, she said; 'twas quite against her will. They had seized her by force, and she was the King of Arabia's daughter.
The southern parts of Judea, if they be measured lengthways, are bounded by a Village adjoining to the confines of Arabia; the Jews that dwell there call it Jordan.
I looked over the menu as if I were in a pretty captious mood, and then, with the air of an epicure who has tasted to the dregs all the condiments of Arabia and whose jaded palate refuses to thrill any longer, I ordered "roast beef."
Soon after this one desert tribe after another came under Mohammed's power, and finally all of Arabia had acknowledged him as God's prophet. He was planning to extend his religion still farther when a misfortune fell upon him that probably caused his death.