GULF OF FINLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gulf of Finland mean? 

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

1. an eastern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Finland and Estonia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GULF OF FINLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An eastern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Finland and Estonia

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)

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

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

 Context examples 

A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Finland.

(Estonia, NCI Thesaurus)

This Braithwaite Lowrey—I knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)