BERING SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bering Sea mean? 

• BERING SEA (noun)
  The noun BERING SEA has 1 sense:

1. part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait

  Familiarity information: BERING SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERING SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Bering Sea" is a part of...):

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

And when the ice goes out of Bering Sea, the man and woman go away on a steamship.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Coming from no man knew where in the illimitable Pacific, it was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Two years ago he dismasted the Ghost in a gale on Bering Sea, whereupon the present masts were put in, which are stronger and heavier in every way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We are getting near Bering Sea, and there are storms and blizzards. The going is hard.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And all the time we were being driven off into the north-east, directly away from Japan and toward bleak Bering Sea.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was confident that we should find a station in some one of the coves, for I knew that the rookeries of Bering Sea were thus guarded; but Maud advanced the theory—to prepare me for disappointment, I do believe, if disappointment were to come—that we had discovered an unknown rookery.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)