Meanings
- not comparablerareOf or pertaining to that part of Africa which lies north of the Sahara Desert.
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With the sole exception of North Africa, the fighting in the European theater did not spread beyond the geographical confines of Europe. But Britain in Palestine and Egypt, France in Syria, Lebanon and Algeria, and Italy in Tripoli all held territorial possessions in the Levant or in super-Saharan Africa, and the conflict between the Western Allies and the Axis eventually spilled over to all points from Morocco to the Nile.
2008, Norman Davies, Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory, →ISBN, page 16
Origin
From super- + Saharan, by analogy with sub-Saharan.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Greek υπερσαχάριος
- υπερσαχάριος (ypersachários)Translations
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super-Saharan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/super-Saharan
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