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BAY OF NAPLES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Bay of Naples mean?
• BAY OF NAPLES (noun)
The noun BAY OF NAPLES has 1 sense:
1. an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
Familiarity information: BAY OF NAPLES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
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 Naples" is a part of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Context examples
My father sent in his name, and there we sat, looking at the white Italian statuettes in the corners, and the picture of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples which hung over the harpsichord.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, as a second lieutenant, he was in one of those grim three-deckers with powder-blackened hulls and crimson scupper-holes, their spare cables tied round their keels and over their bulwarks to hold them together, which carried the news into the Bay of Naples.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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