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SAN FRANCISCO BAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bay of the Pacific in western California
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
Holonyms ("San Francisco Bay" is a part of...):
San Francisco (a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge)
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)