Syrian
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3.2
- adjective
- /ˈsɪr.i.ən/
- Many families in Jordan are hosting Syrian refugees who have fled their war-torn country.
- Syrian civilians
- Syrian troops
- Syrian forces
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Watch on YouTubeSo let's take the Syrian conflict for example.
- So let's take the Syrian conflict for example.
- When I heard the woman inspector say she looks Syrian, we have to take all precautions.
- And of course, we will continue to give all the services to Syrian people in Turkey.
- They did a show where it was all artifacts smuggled in from Syria, like from Syrian refugees.
- She's served in a Syrian refugee camp in Athens.
- Because at that point the Syrian Army had gone to exhaustion was going to fail.
- And then we're going to some ancient ruins up just South of the Syrian border.
- And the problem was the Lebanese plated cars travelling towards the Syrian border or the other way round.
- So the eastern Syrian desert blends into the western, the Iraqi desert.
- For I can't talk about the the Syrian refugee.
- So it's more like Syrian food, but it's a pretty local place and it's beautiful.
- Trump at dinner with Xi Jinping at Mar A Lago, sends missiles to a Syrian air base with Russian soldiers on it.
- But here we have President Donald Trump all in on lifting sanctions for the Syrian government.
- So, So because he then contacted me later and said, Sky, I am going back to the Syrian border to volunteer as a surgeon.
Examples
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Since 2010, Washington has watched Syrian support for terrorism and meddling in Lebanon increase.
Academic text (2011) -
So it's more like Syrian food, but it's a pretty local place and it's beautiful.
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The only evidence we have shows a Syrian connection.
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The UK has no plan to help Syrian refugees who have made it.
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So let's take the Syrian conflict for example.
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So the Syrian bomb maker was killed.
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Clearly, Syrian socialism has had its benefits for the Syrian people, but its time is past.
Academic text (1999) -
Speaker, the Syrian ceasefire is extremely fragile.
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She's served in a Syrian refugee camp in Athens.
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More to the point, Syrian Kurds are a significant minority within Syria.
Compounds
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4.8
A very large dry area in southern Syria, western Iraq, eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia
A bush from the eastern Mediterranean and southwest Asia whose flower buds are used as capers in cooking
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Syrian comes from the country name Syria, and the ending -an means 'from' or 'relating to' a place. So Syrian describes something that comes from or is connected to Syria.