BLACK SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Sea mean? 

• BLACK SEA (noun)
  The noun BLACK SEA has 1 sense:

1. a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans

  Familiarity information: BLACK SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Black Sea; Euxine Sea

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 

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey.

(Bulgaria, NCI Thesaurus)

The blue Mediterranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A country in southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia.

(Georgia (Republic), NCI Thesaurus)

It was the year ’55 when the Crimean war was at its height, and the old convict ships had been largely used as transports in the Black Sea.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on yer sail for his ain purpose.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A country in Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Sea, between Turkey and Russia.

(Georgia (Republic), NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

(Europe, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a dreary blank that was before us. Omne ignotum pro magnifico; and so with heavy hearts we start to find what ships leave for the Black Sea last night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That he scatter his money in making quick inquiry as to what ship sails for the Black Sea and for where.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wherever he may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his destination. To his doom, I trust!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)