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BOSPORUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bosporus mean?
• BOSPORUS (noun)
The noun BOSPORUS has 1 sense:
1. a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
Familiarity information: BOSPORUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)
Holonyms ("Bosporus" is a part of...):
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)
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