Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or concerning Arabia or the Arabs; Arab.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Arabia.
- noun An Arabian horse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Arabia, or to the Arabs: as, Arabian science or philosophy.
- noun A native of Arabia; an Arab.
- noun One of a Christian sect of the third century (commonly called
Arabici ) which sprang up in Perea, beyond the Jordan, a region often included in Arabia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Arabia or its inhabitants.
- adjective the phenix.
- noun A native of Arabia; an Arab.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Related to
Arabia . - noun A
native of Arabia. - noun An Arabian
horse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
- noun a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
- adjective of or relating to Arabian horses
- adjective relating to or associated with Arabia or its people
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Examples
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Arabian c. (_see_ Mocha) _Arabian Nights, The_, 31
All About Coffee 1909
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In the late 1600s and early 1700s, three stallions imported by British aristocrats became the forefathers of today's thoroughbreds: the Godolphin Arabian, Darley Arabian and Byerley Turk.
DNA analysis shows thoroughbreds have British as well as Arabian roots Post 2010
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Her vivid published version of the tales overturns European notions of what we/they call the Arabian Nights.
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The most controversial report was by Johann Hari of The Independent, called The dark side of Dubai, which prompted a response in Arabian Business and The Independent by one of the people he interviewed, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (to whom Hari in turn responded).
Global Voices in English » Qatar, Dubai: Responding To British Media “Bashing” 2009
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In the late 1600s and early 1700s, three stallions imported by British aristocrats became the forefathers of today's thoroughbreds: the Godolphin Arabian, Darley Arabian and Byerley Turk.
DNA analysis shows thoroughbreds have British as well as Arabian roots Post 2010
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Arabian is awesome if you cross it with something that isn't hot-wired!
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Arabian is awesome if you cross it with something that isn't hot-wired!
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Smart, surrealistic fairy tales steepen in Arabian Nights lore and the gnarled fables of Hans Christian Andersen.
October 2007 2007
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Smart, surrealistic fairy tales steepen in Arabian Nights lore and the gnarled fables of Hans Christian Andersen.
EW Reviews SF/F 2007
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It was probably an exaggeration of local usage: a modified separation of the sexes, which extended and still extends even to the Badawi, must long have been customary in Arabian cities, and its object was to deliver the sexes from temptation, as the Koran says (xxxii. 32), “purer will this (practice) be for your hearts and their hearts.”
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