Oman

[oh-mahn]

noun

1. Formerly Muscat and Oman. Sultanate of Oman, an independent sultanate in southeastern Arabia. About 82,800 sq. mi. (212,380 sq. km). Muscat.

2. Gulf of Oman, a northwestern arm of the Arabian Sea, at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

Oman

/ əʊˈmɑːn /

noun

1. Former name (until 1970): Muscat and Oman. a sultanate in SE Arabia, on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea: the most powerful state in Arabia in the 19th century, ruling Zanzibar, much of the Persian coast, and part of Pakistan. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim. Currency: rial. Capital: Muscat. Pop: 3 154 134 (2013 est). Area: about 306 000 sq km (118 150 sq miles)

Oman

1. Kingdom on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula on the Arabian Sea, bordered to the northwest by the United Arab Emirates, the west by Saudi Arabia, and the southwest by Yemen. Oman includes a tip of land on one side of the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf.

Strategically located on trading and military routes between the Persian Gulf and Asia and east Africa, Oman has been occupied by the Portuguese, the Turks, and the Persians; since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has maintained close relations with Britain.

Oman began exporting oil in 1967.

Example Sentences

After his father was overthrown by rebels and killed in 2011, he fled to Syria and then had lived under house arrest in Oman with his wife Aline Skaf.

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Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman—will next meet on Nov. 30.

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Vast palaces loom over landscapes in Riyadh, Oman and Malaysia, but the scale and grandeur of the buildings doesn’t confer on those nations any gravitas or greatness.

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For example, it cut a deal to manage and brand a $500 million golf and resort project in Oman.

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Oman added that "at present, the whereabouts of the suspect are unknown."

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