Dhahran

[dah-rahn]

noun

a city in E Saudi Arabia: oil center.

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Contemporary Examples of dhahran

The Khobar Towers are located close to Aramco headquarters in Dhahran.
In Saudi Arabia and Israel, Signals That Iran Has Retaliation in Works
Bruce Riedel
October 26, 2012
It was 1996, and the U.S. Air Force barracks had just been bombed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
CBS' Bob Simon Remembers Don Hewitt
Bob Simon
August 19, 2009

British Dictionary definitions for dhahran

Dhahran

noun

a town in E Saudi Arabia: site of the original discovery of oil in the country (1938)

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