1. an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and wounding more than 300 people;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Dhahran
n 1: an oil town in eastern Saudi Arabia on an inlet from the
Persian Gulf; in June 1996 terrorists bombed an apartment
complex in Dhahran killing 19 United States soldiers and
wounding more than 300 people