BAY OF FUNDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bay of Fundy mean? 

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

1. a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAY OF FUNDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet

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 Fundy" 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)