Araby
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Araby
1125–75; Middle English Arabye < Old French Arabie < Latin Arabia
Example Sentences
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Jim Araby, the director of strategic campaigns for the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5, called the new law a “victory for all workers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2022
Jim Araby, director of strategic campaigns for the food and commercial workers union in Northern California, said the retail industry needed to put in place more sustainable supports for workers who got ill.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022
For more than two years, respected colleagues have been talking up the merits of Araby, a tiny but mighty fiction debut by Brazilian film-makers João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2019
The clanging thump of the Araby disco reached us intermittently on breezes.
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2015
Milo was not only the Vice-Shah of Oran, as it turned out, but also the Caliph of Baghdad, the Imam of Damascus, and the Sheik of Araby.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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