Thar Desert

American  

[tur, tahr] / tɜr, tɑr /

noun

1. a desert in NW India and S Pakistan. About 77,000 sq. mi. (200,000 sq. km).

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Thar Desert British  

/ tɑː /

noun

1. Also called: Indian Desert.   Great Indian Desert.  a desert in NW India, mainly in NW Rajasthan state and extending into Pakistan. Area: over 260 000 sq km (100 000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

The dates will be planted in the arid Thar Desert of northern India to help reclaim the land and create employment.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

A team of scientists in the Thar Desert discovered an entirely new dinosaur species: Tharosaurus indicus.

From Scientific American • Oct. 22, 2023

Enrollment in the school was open to all families who live below the poverty line in the Thar Desert region.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Located on the fringes of the Thar Desert, it is the lair of the exuberant Reggie Singh, a cousin to the Maharajah of Jodhpur and owner of the surrounding namesake, Reggie’s Camel Camp Osian.

From Time • Mar. 14, 2013

For he knew well that there was plenty more world to conquer, could one conquer it: rich and mighty kingdoms beyond that Thar Desert his soldiers are said to have refused to cross.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth