Saudi Arabia

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a kingdom in N and central Arabia, including Hejaz, Nejd, and dependencies. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,554,000 sq. km). Capital: Riyadh.

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saucier, saucy, Saud, saudade, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauerbraten, sauerkraut, sauger, saugh, Saugus

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How to use Saudi Arabia in a sentence

The US also ended its support for Riyadh’s offensive operations in Yemen, which began during the Obama administration, though the US military will still help protect Saudi Arabia against regional threats.
US releases unclassified report blaming Saudi’s crown prince for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder|Alex Ward|February 26, 2021|Vox
On Wednesday evening, Lina al-Hathloul posted a screengrab of a video call she had just ended with her sister, women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, whose face beamed back across the six-inch display from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Activist Loujain al Hathloul is Out of Jail. But Justice Remains a Distant Hope|Joseph Hincks|February 11, 2021|Time
When I started, I was conducting women-only training sessions in Saudi Arabia.
Smell the Coffee: Middle East Women Brew Silent Revolution|Charu Kasturi|January 18, 2021|Ozy
He was deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and was honorably discharged in 2003, according to a Guard spokesman.
“This Political Climate Got My Brother Killed”: Officer Brian Sicknick Died Defending the Capitol. His Family Waits for Answers.|by J. David McSwane|January 8, 2021|ProPublica

Google will start selling its cloud-computing services in Saudi Arabia through a deal with oil producer Aramco, a controversial move by the internet giant.
Google’s Aramco deal risks irking staff over oil, Saudi politics|Verne Kopytoff|December 21, 2020|Fortune
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Jan. 4|PunditFact.com|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Jan. 4|PunditFact.com|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked?
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
U.S. Ally Qatar Shelters Jihadi Moneymen|Jamie Dettmer|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Arabia is the most dry country in the world, and one in which water is the most scarce.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
For he appears to have subdued first Ethiopia and Troglodytica,705 and afterwards to have passed over into Arabia.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)|Strabo
The little zebu of Arabia is not more than a tenth part the size of the bull-elephant.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
From Arabia we got the words harem and magazine, and from Turkey the name coffee, though this is really an Arabian word.
Stories That Words Tell Us|Elizabeth O'Neill
In remote antiquity the bulk of gold was brought by the Phenicians from Arabia, which had twenty-two gold mines.
The Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 6, March, 1885|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

/ (ˈsɔːdɪ, ˈsaʊ-) /

noun

a kingdom in SW Asia, occupying most of the Arabian peninsula between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea: founded in 1932 by Ibn Saud, who united Hejaz and Nejd; consists mostly of desert plateau; large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: riyal. Capital: Riyadh (royal and administrative), Jiddah (diplomatic). Pop: 26 939 583 (2013 est). Area: 2 260 353 sq km (872 722 sq miles)

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Cultural definitions for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

[ (sow-dee, saw-dee, sah-ooh-dee) ]

Monarchy occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula, where it is bordered by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the east and south; Yemen to the south; and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the west. Its capital and largest city is Riyadh.

notes for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia sits on at least one-fourth of the world's known oil reserves, a geological gift that makes this otherwise resource-poor, desert nation very rich and important to the industrial nations of the world.

notes for Saudi Arabia

Overwhelmingly Muslim, the country is ruled by a royal family according to conservative Muslim law.

notes for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is the location of Mecca (see also Mecca) and Medina, the two most holy places in the world for Muslims, pilgrimage sites equivalent to the Catholic Rome and the Christian and Jewish Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem).

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Saudi Arabia became the major staging ground for United Nations forces seeking to expel Iraq from Kuwait in 1990–1991. (See Persian Gulf War.)