near east   (TTS Sound)

The near_east has 1 Senses.

• mideast, near east, middle east
• 近東, 中東
• the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"
• 地中海東岸の周りの地域