TERRITORIAL WATERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does territorial waters mean? 

• TERRITORIAL WATERS (noun)
  The noun TERRITORIAL WATERS has 1 sense:

1. the waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction

  Familiarity information: TERRITORIAL WATERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRITORIAL WATERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The waters surrounding a nation and its territories over which that nation exercises sovereign jurisdiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("territorial waters" is a kind of...):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Instance hyponyms:

U.S. waters; United States waters (territorial waters included within a distance of 12 nautical miles of the coasts of the United States and its territories)

Holonyms ("territorial waters" is a part of...):

briny; main (any very large body of (salt) water)

Antonym:

high sea; international waters (the open seas of the world outside the territorial waters of any nation)

 Context examples 

Norway and Iceland allow hunting in their territorial waters.

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