eastern desert

1. 1.

   a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea

   SynonymsArabian Desert

   Broaderdesert

   Part ofEgyptArabian Desert

Questions about eastern desert

What does eastern desert mean?

eastern desert means "a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea".

What is another word for eastern desert?

Close synonyms include Arabian Desert. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eastern desert a common word?

eastern desert is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.