BAY OF BISCAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bay of Biscay mean? 

• BAY OF BISCAY (noun)
  The noun BAY OF BISCAY has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

  Familiarity information: BAY OF BISCAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAY OF BISCAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Bay of Biscay" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

A country in Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain.

(France, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

His thoughts were still in the woods of Minstead and the old armory of Twynham Castle, when the hoarse voice of the master-shipman brought them back once more to the Bay of Biscay.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There seems some doom over this ship. Already a hand short, and entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild weather ahead, and yet last night another man lost—disappeared. Like the first, he came off his watch and was not seen again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)