SEA OF JAPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sea of Japan mean? 

• SEA OF JAPAN (noun)
  The noun SEA OF JAPAN has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Pacific bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea, and Russia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA OF JAPAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Pacific bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea, and Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

East Sea; Sea of Japan

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

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

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

A country in eastern Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula, bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea.

(Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, NCI Thesaurus)