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BLACK SEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
Synonyms:
Black Sea; Euxine Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
Meronyms (parts of "Black Sea"):
Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff; Sea of Azov (a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine)
Context examples:
Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:—As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since by that way he come.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted; but whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would or no.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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