Fertile Crescent

noun

1. an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
2. an area in the Middle East: formerly fertile, now partly desert.

Fertile Crescent

noun

1. an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fertile Crescent¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Ancient Fertile Crescent communities periodically gave farming a go while still hunting, foraging, fishing and trading.

From Science News

Cities like Pompeii and Petra, Heliopolis in Egypt and Ayutthaya in Thailand, Ur and Jericho and Babylon in the Fertile Crescent.

From The Daily Beast

The cities of the Fertile Crescent built in mud brick and used stone, copper, and bronze tools.

From Project Gutenberg