CARIBBEAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caribbean Sea mean? 

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

1. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARIBBEAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Caribbean; Caribbean Sea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Caribbean Sea"):

Caribbean Island (an island in the Caribbean Sea)

 Context examples 

In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela and west of Curacao.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the Caribbean Sea, east of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus)

Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico.

(Antigua and Barbuda, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Honduras and Belize and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Mexico.

(Guatemala, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, east of Mexico and west of Belize and Honduras.

(Guatemala, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua.

(Honduras, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras.

(Nicaragua, NCI Thesaurus)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)