IONIAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ionian Sea mean? 

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

1. an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IONIAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy

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 "Ionian Sea"):

Gulf of Corinth; Gulf of Lepanto (inlet of the Ionian Sea between central Greece and the Peloponnesus)

Holonyms ("Ionian Sea" is a part of...):

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)