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WINDWARD PASSAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
channel (a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels)
Holonyms ("Windward Passage" is a part of...):
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)
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