SAHARA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Sahara mean? • SAHARA (noun)
The noun SAHARA has 1 sense:
1. the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
Familiarity information: SAHARA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SAHARA (noun)
Meaning:
The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Sahara; Sahara Desert
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Meronyms (parts of "Sahara"):
Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)
Meronyms (members of "Sahara"):
Tuareg (a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara)
Holonyms ("Sahara" is a part of...):
Africa (the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
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