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  Arafat

  noun

  Yasir 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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  arafat

  noun

  a hill 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.

Arafat

¹ American  

[ar-uh-fat, ahr-uh-faht] / ˈær əˌfæt, ˈɑr əˌfɑt /

noun

1. Yasir 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

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arafat ² American  

[ahr-uh-fat, ar-uh-fat] / ˌɑr əˈfæt, ˈær əˌfæt /

noun

1. a hill 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.

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Arafat ¹ British  

/ ˈærəfæt /

noun

1. Also called: Jabal ar Rahm.  a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj

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Arafat ² British  

noun

1. Yasser (ˈjæsə). 1929–2004, Palestinian leader; cofounder of Al Fatah (1956), leader from 1968 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996: signed a peace agreement with Israel (1993); Nobel peace prize 1994 with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin

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Arafat

Days after our visit to the measles ward in Mymensingh, we hear news that baby Arafat has died.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Arafat is one of Bangladesh's more than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases since cases spiked in mid-March, according to government figures.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Arafat Jamal, UNHCR's representative for Afghanistan, described the lack of documentation as an "almost invisible" phenomenon.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The biggest test could come on the second day of Hajj, when pilgrims gather for prayer and repentance at Mount Arafat, a granite hill and surrounding plains at the edge of Mecca.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

I preached it on the mountain at Arafat, I preached it in the busy lobby of the Jedda Palace Hotel.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey