BERING STRAIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bering Strait mean? 

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

1. a strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BERING STRAIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)

 Context examples 

It is widely accepted that humans first made their way to the Americas from Siberia into Alaska via a land bridge spanning the Bering Strait which was submerged at the end of the last Ice Age.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)