Gaza /ˈɡɑː.zə/ noun7 •A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant; in full, Gaza City. •Ellipsis of the Gaza Strip: a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance. — 2019 •A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city. •A region of Southern Africa •A province of Mozambique. •A historical empire in Southern Africa. •Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza: a wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
