| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Near East |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  nîr |
| A region of southwest Asia generally thought to include Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Egypt and Sudan in northeast Africa are sometimes considered part of the region. | | OTHER FORMS: | Near Eastern —ADJECTIVE
Near Easterner —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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