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# saharan

«saharan» in Mova's school dictionary: **belonging to or coming from the Sahara, the huge hot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Saharan, more Saharan — rare); noun (a Saharan, Saharans — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Saharan means belonging to or coming from the Sahara, the huge hot desert in North Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#m1)

2) Saharan can describe weather or places that are very hot and dry, like the Sahara. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#m2)

3) (rare) A Saharan is a person who lives in the Sahara. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it tells you about the Sahara Desert: its sand dunes, camels, oases and dust storms; in science it comes up with dust, heat and dry climates; in everyday talk «Saharan heat» means an extremely hot day; phrases: Saharan dust, Saharan Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Saharan heat.

### examples

- Camels can walk for days across the Saharan sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x1)
- Saharan dust sometimes blows all the way to Britain and makes cars dusty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x2)
- The Saharan sun is fierce at midday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x3)
- Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa lie south of the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x4)
- Our classroom felt Saharan after the heating broke and stayed on full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x5)
- We drew a map of the Saharan oases in geography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x6)
- Saharan nights can be surprisingly cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/#x7)

### note

Usually written with a capital S because it comes from the name Sahara. «Sub-Saharan» means the parts of Africa south of the Sahara. The Sahara is not the biggest desert of all if you count cold deserts: Antarctica is bigger. Do not confuse with «Sahara» (the noun, the desert itself).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «saharan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/saharan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.