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SAHARA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
Synonyms:
Sahara; Sahara Desert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Meronyms (parts of "Sahara"):
Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)
Meronyms (members of "Sahara"):
Tuareg (a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara)
Holonyms ("Sahara" is a part of...):
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Context examples:
When Miss Mills undertook the office and returned with Dora, exhorting us, from the pulpit of her own bitter youth, to mutual concession, and the avoidance of the Desert of Sahara!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The Sahara Desert was once underwater, in contrast to its present-day arid environment.
(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)
The geographic pattern of expansion varied from season to season, with the largest differences along the Sahara's northern and southern boundaries.
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
But Miss Mills, mistrusting the acceptability of her presence to the higher powers, had not yet gone; and we were all benighted in the Desert of Sahara.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The southward creep of the Sahara suggests that additional mechanisms are at work.
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The researchers analyzed annual rainfall data recorded throughout Africa from 1920 to 2013 and found that the Sahara, which occupies much of the northern part of the continent, expanded by 10 percent during this period.
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies, Julia, and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Like all deserts, the boundaries of the Sahara fluctuate with the seasons, expanding in the dry winter and contracting during the wetter summer.
(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)
At first Miss Mills thought it was a quarrel, and that we were verging on the Desert of Sahara; but she soon found out how matters stood, for my dear affectionate little Dora, embracing her, began exclaiming that I was a poor labourer; and then cried for me, and embraced me, and asked me would I let her give me all her money to keep, and then fell on Miss Mills's neck, sobbing as if her tender heart were broken.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
