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ZUIDER ZEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
inlet; recess (an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands))
Holonyms ("Zuider Zee" is a part of...):
North Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970)