1. (n.)Arabia a peninsula in SW Asia including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait. ab. 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,600,000 sq. km).
Definition of 'Arabia'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)Arabian Peninsula, Arabia a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
Definitions of 'Arabia'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. Arabia the most westerlypeninsula of Asia and the largest in the world, beingone-third the size of the whole of Europe, consisting of (a) a centralplateau with pastures for cattle, and fertile valleys; (b) a ring of deserts, the Nefud in the N., stony, the Great Arabian, a perfect Sahara, in the S., sandy, said sometimes to be 600 ft. deep, and the Dahna between; and (c) stretches of coast land, generally fertile on the W. and S.; is divided into eight territories; has no lakes or rivers, only wadies, oftenest dry; the climatebeing hot and arid, has no forests, and therefore few wild animals; a tradingcountry with no roads or railways, only caravan routes, yet the birthland of a race that threatened at one time to sweep the globe, and of a religion that has been a life-guidance to wide-scattered millions of human beings for overtwelve centuries of time.