ADRIATIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adriatic mean? 

• ADRIATIC (noun)
  The noun ADRIATIC has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west

  Familiarity information: ADRIATIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADRIATIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Adriatic; Adriatic Sea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Adriatic"):

Gulf of Venice (an arm of the Adriatic Sea)

Holonyms ("Adriatic" is a part of...):

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.

(Croatia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Croatia and Serbia.

(Bosnia and Herzegovina, NCI Thesaurus)

I was promoted to be a major and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)