Associations to the word «Arabia»

Wiktionary

ARABIA, proper noun. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
ARABIA, proper noun. (broader sense) the region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; includes Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats