gaza

IPA: gˈɑzʌ

Root Word: Gaza

Any of several places in Palestine: [A city, the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, located between Egypt and Israel]
Ellipsis of Gaza City; A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Levant: A Palestinian city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. [A city, the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, located between Egypt and Israel]
Ellipsis of Gaza Strip; A region of Palestine, Levant: A North-South strip of land at the southern end of the Levant on the Mediterranean bordering the Sinai Peninsula. [A region of Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel: A small area of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian territory bordered by Egypt and Israel.]
Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza: A valley in Palestine, Levant: A wadi in the Gaza Strip [A wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, Levant, between Egypt and Israel; dividing Northern Gaza from the rest of the Gaza Strip, and marking the southern boundary of Gaza City; containing the Besor Stream (Besor River).]

Examples of "gaza" in Sentences

Effects of Gaza war and the Gaza blockade.
Smuggle money and give it to the people of Gaza
Muslim world must retaliate against Israel for Gaza.
Its not Gaza flotilla battle or Gaza flotilla skirmish.
An attack on the government of Gaza is an attack on Gaza.
Their loyalists used to scrawl graffiti on walls in the Gaza.
Gaza is the place of the attack, but Gaza isn't the belligerent.
Please transliterate and translate the title of Theodore of Gaza's book.
The Arabs are exasperated by the intensity of the Israeli repression in Gaza.
Nervousness about that boiling region resurfaced this week after Israel and Hamas lobbed missiles at each other in the Gaza Strip.