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STRAIT OF MAGELLAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Strait of Magellan mean? 

STRAIT OF MAGELLAN (noun)
  The noun STRAIT OF MAGELLAN has 1 sense:

1. the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was builtplay

  Familiarity information: STRAIT OF MAGELLAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRAIT OF MAGELLAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built

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)


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