Persian Gulf

noun

1. an arm of the Arabian Sea, between SW Iran and Arabia. 600 miles (965 km) long.

Persian Gulf

noun

1. a shallow arm of the Arabian Sea between SW Iran and Arabia: linked with the Arabian Sea by the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman; important for the oilfields on its shores. Area: 233 000 sq km (90 000 sq miles)

Persian Gulf

1. Arm of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and Iran .

Notes

The Persian Gulf oil fields are among the most productive in the world.

The Persian Gulf region was dominated by Britain for most of the twentieth century. After Britain's withdrawal in the late 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for influence in the region. ( See Persian Gulf War .)

Example Sentences

Now, the Persian Gulf country is the latest to raise doubts about the vaccine’s effectiveness.

From Washington Post

Once when flying to Oman, I was wakened in my window seat by the sheer brightness of the flares shooting up from the Persian Gulf oil rigs below.

From Washington Post

As conflict in the Persian Gulf intensified in 1990, the president continued with a vacation to the family haven of Kennebunkport, Maine.

From Washington Post

And the win was the puniest of the conflagrations, the Persian Gulf War.

From The Daily Beast

The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been dispatched to the Persian Gulf.

From The Daily Beast

A steady stream of financiers from wealthy Persian Gulf nations arrives at Turkish border towns such as Reyhanli.

From The Daily Beast

The Persian Gulf states, which adored the coup, quickly offered Egypt far more money than the U.S. could have withheld.

From The Daily Beast

Saudi Arabia and some of the Persian Gulf states interests in Syria that arguably render the idea of negotiations unattractive.

From The Daily Beast

For they seem to reckon it either together with the gulfs, or together with the Carmanian coast within the Persian Gulf.

From Project Gutenberg

The passage across the mouth of the Persian Gulf does not occupy more than one day.

From Project Gutenberg

He crossed many rivers, which flow through the country and discharge themselves into the Persian Gulf.

From Project Gutenberg

There are also indications that they possessed some knowledge of navigation and traded on the Persian Gulf.

From Project Gutenberg

Probably these rivers then flowed separately into the Persian Gulf.

From Project Gutenberg