Definition of Kalahari

1. Noun. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.


Definition of Kalahari

1. Proper noun. A large desert in southern Africa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kalahari

Kaiserling
Kaiserling's fixative
Kaissariani
Kaithi
Kaitij
Kaitlin
Kaitlyn
Kajkavian
Kakatoe
Kakatoe galerita
Kakatoe leadbeateri
Kakemono
Kala Lagaw Ya
Kalaallisut
Kalaallit Nunaat
Kalahari (current term)
Kalahari Desert
Kalamazoo
Kalamazooan
Kalamazooans
Kalamazoos
Kalami
Kalanga
Kalapooia
Kalapooian
Kalapuya
Kalapuyan
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov culture
Kalderash

Literary usage of Kalahari

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1886)
"A RECENT JOURNEY JN THE Kalahari, having been Cónsul-General at Bucharest in 1857-8, and subsequently private secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer at ..."

2. The Map of Africa by Treaty by Edward Hertslet, Great Britain (1894)
"... and the Kalahari.. 334 Royal Commission. Governor of Cape of Good Hope, ... British Protectorate over Bechuanaland and the Kalahari 335 Order in Council ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"NOTES ON A PORTION OF THE Kalahari.* By EDWARD WILKINSON. IT is with great diffidence that I venture to lay before you a few details of recent visits to ..."

4. A Physical, Historical, Political, & Descriptive Geography by Alexander Keith Johnston, Ernest George Ravenstein (1885)
"THE Kalahari DESERT. 84. The Kalahari represents the area of the ... The Kalahari has no running water, and is for the most part a dry sandy region, ..."

5. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Kalahari GEMSBOK NATIONAL PARK—see South Africa (p.132). Khutse Game Reserve with many small open pans attracting a variety of mammals, including migratory ..."

6. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"This, for example, is what seems to have happened to the Ba-Kalahari,f who, ... They now inhabit the Kalahari desert, where they can derive no advantage ..."

7. Human Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1922)
"THE Kalahari DESERT AND ITS EDGES. 776. A dry region lies west and north of the White stretches along the west coast to about latitude 11°. ..."

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