Saudi Arabia

Proper noun

Saudi Arabia

1. A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Capital: Riyadh.
   • In the three and a half years since the start of the Second World War the Sa’udi king had received annually from Great Britain some £3 million in goods and silver coins, plus some £750,000 which Casoc advanced in 1941 and again in 1942 against royalties anticipated from post-war oil sales. But in...[1981, Robert Lacey, “The Second World War”, in The Kingdom, New York; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 263
   • Little did anyone dream that Sa’udi Arabia possessed the world's largest oil reserves, which would eventually bring incredible wealth and power but would also undermine an ancient Eastern way of life.[1983, Glenn E. Perry, “Rebellion, Emulation, and Reaction: 1920–1939”, in The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212