PRUDHOE BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prudhoe Bay mean? 

• PRUDHOE BAY (noun)
  The noun PRUDHOE BAY has 1 sense:

1. a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968

  Familiarity information: PRUDHOE BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRUDHOE BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Prudhoe Bay" is a part of...):

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)