Saudin.adj.
/ˈsaʊdi/, /ˈsɔːdi/, /sɑːˈuːdi/, U.S. /ˈsaʊdi/, /ˈsɔdi/, /ˈsɑdi/ A. n.
(a) A member of the Arabian Saʿūd dynasty, the rulers of Nejd since the eighteenth century and of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1932. (b) = Saudi Arabian n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Arabia or Saudi Arabia > [noun]
Arabianc1380
Araba1382
Arabya1398
Saudi1933
Saudi Arabian1947
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > member of specific Muslim
Almohad1600
Almoravid1612
Abbasid1664
Hashemite1697
Umayyad1758
Marinid1894
Saudi1933
1933 K. Williams Ibn Sa‘ud i. 18 Muhammad took Riyadh... The Sa‘udis could neither forget nor forgive their humiliation.
1933 K. Williams Ibn Sa‘ud ii. 28 Arabia knew that a Sa‘udi was..again master of Riyadh.
1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands xii. 227 At that time I was dressed as a Saudi.
1962 Listener 5 Apr. 587/1 The Saudis could not bear the thought of an expansion of Hashimite power into Syria.
1976 Daily Record (Glasgow) 22 Nov. 15/2 While I was there, Lebanese and Saudis in exquisite white silk suits, sipped pink champagne and peeled off £20 tips to English waitresses.
B. adj.
(a) Of or pertaining to the Saʿūd dynasty. (b) = Saudi Arabian adj.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Middle East > Saudi Arabia
Saudi1933
Saudi Arabian1934
Saudian1950
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > specific Muslim
Almohad1620
Umayyad1758
Abbasid1760
Almoravid1760
Hashemite1788
Saudi1933
Saudite1949
Saadian1951
Marinid1952
1933 K. Williams Ibn Sa‘ud i. 23 Was the star of the Sa‘udi scion.. not to appear?
1949 Britannica Bk. of Year 51/1 A fraternal declaration which it was hoped would be the beginning of friendlier relations between the Saudi and Hashimi dynasties.
1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 169/1 The name Arabia is quite often used, incorrectly, when reference is intended to the Saudi kingdom only.
1959 W. Thesiger Arabian Sands xiii. 245 They were dressed in Saudi fashion, in long white shirts, gold-embroidered cloaks, and white head-cloths.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 275/2 The 10,000 Saudi Arabs employed by Aramco..are exposed to modern industrial skills, technology, [etc.].
1976 Star (Sheffield) 3 Dec. 14/7 Sheffield workers got a pat on the back..for helping to save a Saudi customer waiting.
Derivatives
ˈSaudian adj.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [adjective] > Middle East > Saudi Arabia
Saudi1933
Saudi Arabian1934
Saudian1950
1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 378/1 Some experts believe that the Saudian oilfields contain one-half of the world's oil reserves.
ˈSaudite adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > specific Muslim
Almohad1620
Umayyad1758
Abbasid1760
Almoravid1760
Hashemite1788
Saudi1933
Saudite1949
Saadian1951
Marinid1952
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. xvi. 177 Transjordan was and is as interested in a solution on these lines as the Jews, in view of the age~old rivalry between the Hashimite and Saudite dynasties.
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