GULF OF BOTHNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gulf of Bothnia mean? 

• GULF OF BOTHNIA (noun)
  The noun GULF OF BOTHNIA has 1 sense:

1. a northern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Sweden and Finland

  Familiarity information: GULF OF BOTHNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GULF OF BOTHNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A northern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Sweden and Finland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)

Meronyms (parts of "Gulf of Bothnia"):

Aaland islands; Ahvenanmaa; Aland islands (an archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia under Finnish control)

Holonyms ("Gulf of Bothnia" is a part of...):

Baltic; Baltic Sea (a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy)

 Context examples 

An archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.

(Aland Islands, NCI Thesaurus)