Red Sea
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1.6
- proper noun
- /rɛd si/
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Mar Rojo
- Goods from beyond the Red Sea and of the local Bedouin tribes would be brought to Mecca from where the camel caravans would transport them to the Levant.
- Red Sea port
- Red Sea coast
- people of the Red Sea
And this is likened to the victorious Israelites looking back to the Red Sea during the Exodus.
- And this is likened to the victorious Israelites looking back to the Red Sea during the Exodus.
- Even though there are miracle stories, Moses still splits the Red Sea, his staff still turns into a serpent.
- Well, for example, Moses never crossed the Red Sea.
- Commercial shipping lines are getting attacked by Houthis in the Red Sea with, you know, Zodiacs and Stinger missiles, right?
- And I'd like to go down Greece and Israel, down through the Red Sea and down to Seychelles and Madagascar.
- And we all know in the world that it's Iran that's behind the Houthis who are throwing missiles on those ships in the Red Sea.
- There's the Eisenhower in the the Gerald R Ford in the Mediterranean, I believe There's the Eisenhower in the Red Sea.
- They're going to keep trying to close down the Red Sea and we look like we're we're pathetically incompetent between the border and Iran.
- I would agree with to the splitting of the Red Sea.
Examples
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Beyond is the entire western coastline of the Red Sea, Hijaz and Yemen.
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Exotic goods were brought through the Red Sea over a thousand years before the Roman conquest of Egypt.
Academic text (2010) -
I remember in the last war spending Christmas in the Red Sea.
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So I made it to the coast and I'm looking at the beautiful Red Sea, which is a very beautiful kind of blue.
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Twelve percent of the world's oil passes through the Gulf, which links the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Academic text (2011) -
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, which connects to the Arabian Sea.
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It was Ramses ll whose soldiers were drowned in the Red Sea while chasing Moses and the Israelites.
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Tourists flock to pharaonic sites and Red Sea beaches, a flow occasionally disrupted by regional political crises.
Academic text (2005) -
The coral reefs in the Red Sea are home to a diverse range of marine life.
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Many tourists visit Egypt to explore the stunning beaches along the Red Sea.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is an adjective + noun place name, so a B1 learner who knows 'red' and 'sea' will readily infer it denotes a sea (a body of saltwater) and likely assume some connection to the adjective. Although as a proper name the colour may not be literally descriptive of the water, the composition follows a standard descriptive pattern (and many languages have equivalent literal translations), making the referential meaning derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Red Sea may come from red algae that sometimes grow in large patches and make the water look reddish. That clear color image explains why the long sea between Africa and Arabia got the name and why we still call it the Red Sea today.