Saudi
/ˈsaʊdi
/ /ˈsɔːdi /adjective
Relating to Saudi Arabia or its ruling dynasty.Until 1964, Saudi girls were not allowed to go to school....
- According to the movie, these Saudi investors own about 7 percent of the U.S. economy.
- As a new rule, all Saudi visitors to the US are interviewed, fingerprinted and photographed upon arrival.
noun (plural Saudis)
A citizen of Saudi Arabia, or a member of its ruling dynasty.Companies are just not creating enough jobs, despite intense pressure to hire Saudis instead of South Asians and other expatriates....
- They're Iranians and Syrians and Saudis and Egyptians, but the core of them are the dissatisfied people who were disenfranchised.
- Egyptians, Saudis, Syrians, etc. would describe themselves as ‘Arab’.
Origin
From the name of Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud (1880–1953), first king of Saudi Arabia.
Rhymes
- put ideas into someone's head
- put in
- put into action
- Putin, Vladimir
- put it (or oneself) about
- put it there
- put lipstick on a pig
- putlock
- putlog
- putlog hole
- put money (or put one's money) on
- puto
- put-off
- put off the evil day (or hour)
- put-on
- put one over on
- put one's affairs in order
- put one's back into
- put one's best foot forward
- put oneself in another's place
- put one's face on
- put one's feet up
- put one's finger in the dyke
- put one's finger on something
- put one's foot down