Sinai n 1: a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments [syn: {Mount Sinai}] 2: a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt [syn: {Sinai Desert}] 3: a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea [syn: {Sinai Peninsula}]