Arab

Definitions

1. billion (sense 1); 1,000,000,000; or with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,00,000.
   India, rare
2. A Semitic person, whose forebears were from the Arabian Peninsula.
3. A city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States.
4. An inhabitant of Arabia or the Arab world.
5. The Arabic language.
   dated, rare
6. A member of an Arabic-speaking community.
7. An Arabian horse.
8. A street Arab.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“This backlash also fails to take⟳ into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.”

“Having taken a very early breakfast, I mounted about eight o'clock my grey Arab, and without anything occurring worthy of note⟳, killed the first three boars in the space of an hour, […]”

“a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon You Christian people often see⟳ the little gutter children — the poor little arabs in the street — and you feel⟳ much pity for them, as well you may.”

“The other day I heard you complaining of the nuisance that small ragged street-boys are to you whenever you go out. […] You wished that some one would do something to clear away these little Arabs, as you are pleased to call⟳ them, so that a fine old English gentleman—as you are pleased to think⟳ yourself—might take⟳ his exercise in peace.”

“Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.”

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