jebel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Schoeffer is a gadabout, and he led the young couple over jebel and oued—hill and stream—in Morocco’s rugged backcountry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2018
He needs both badly, for he has enemies as far as one can see across the Arabian sand and jebel.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a finely conspicuous island, for upon the north end there is a lofty barn-roofed jebel or hill.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
The jebel or mountain-land is, however, the typical Yemen, the Arabia Felix of the ancients.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
By this time you have learned that gebel is a mountain, and jebel, as you will find it on your map of the Peninsula of Sinai, means the same thing.
From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Optic, Oliver
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
