YELLOW SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yellow Sea mean? 

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

1. part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOW SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Huang Hai; Yellow Sea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Yellow Sea"):

Bo Hai; Po Hai (an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China)

Korea Bay (an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea)

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

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