Sahara
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- proper noun
- /səˈhɑːrə/
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Sáhara
- If your figures are correct, this ship's in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
- Sahara Desert
- Western Sahara
- central Sahara
It stretched from England to the Sahara, from Spain to Armenia.
- It stretched from England to the Sahara, from Spain to Armenia.
- Not, not desert like you think of the Sahara with sort of like rolling sand dunes.
- And someone said that the Sahara was expanding northwards and was going to destroy North Africa.
- I mean, it was a really look, we were shooting in September on the in the last Oasis before the really true Sahara begins.
- Once I climbed what's known as the first dune of the Sahara, despite how many there must be, at the periphery, rose from nowhere.
- So Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, Morocco, Sahara Desert, Mediterranean.
- We are talking Sahara Desert dehydration.
Examples
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My flight over the Sahara to Djanet was like no other I've experienced.
Academic text (1991) -
But yeah, no, like, you know, I'm coming back to run the Sahara Marathon next year.
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Very edge of the Sahara.
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We're just 100 miles north of the Sahara desert.
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We found him in the Sahara.
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And now we're going to go to bed in our tent on a mattress in the middle of the Sahara Desert, in our turbans.
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On the edge of the vast Sahara Desert, citizens snuck out of the city of Timbuktu and took to the wilderness.
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Once I climbed what's known as the first dune of the Sahara, despite how many there must be, at the periphery, rose from nowhere.
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It's got real desert, bordering the Sahara by Chad, with camel-riding Muslims in the north.
Fiction book (2000) -
The Sahara is known as the world's largest hot desert, stretching across several countries in northern Africa.
Synonyms
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A very large hot area of sand in northern Africa with wide sand dunes
Compounds
A region in northwest Africa on the Atlantic coast that many countries disagree about and that Morocco mostly controls
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sahara comes from the Arabic parts al- and sahra, where al- means 'the' and sahra means 'desert', so the name originally meant 'the desert' and now names the very large desert in North Africa.