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NORTH SEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
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 "North Sea"):
Orkney Islands (an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland)
Kattegatt (a strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Sweden; connects with the North Sea through the Skagerrak)
Skagerak; Skagerrak (a broad strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Norway)
Zuider Zee (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)
Holonyms ("North Sea" 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)
