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Definition of Sahara

1. Noun. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa.

Definition of Sahara

1. Proper noun. A desert in North Africa, the largest hot desert in the world. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Sahara

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Sahara, VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF.—The Sahara is a vast desert of northern Africa, measuring about 932 miles from north to south and 2484 miles from east to ..."

2. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"CHAPTER XL THE Sahara. HE term Sahara (Sah'ra) meaning a vast plain, waste, or wilderness, appears to have no very precise value. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In company with this tree, without which life in the Sahara would be practically impossible, are grown apples, peaches, oranges, citrons, figs, ..."

4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1906)
"DESERT OF Sahara AND THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT COMPARED. Explorations by Gautier and others in the Desert of Sahara have shown that the desert of Sahara had ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Except in the oases the desert is almost devoid of vegetation save for stunted and thorny shrubs in the western Sahara. One of the commonest shrubs is the ..."

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