EMBAYMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embayment mean? 

• EMBAYMENT (noun)
  The noun EMBAYMENT has 1 sense:

1. an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

  Familiarity information: EMBAYMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBAYMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

bay; embayment

Hypernyms ("embayment" is a kind of...):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embayment"):

Guantanamo Bay (an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903)

bight (a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline)

Instance hyponyms:

New York Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River)

Korea Bay (an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea)

Massachusetts Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south)

Minamata Bay (a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay)

Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)

Monterey Bay (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California)

Moreton Bay (an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane)

Narragansett Bay (a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island)

James Bay (the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario)

Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)

Penobscot Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine)

Prudhoe Bay (a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968)

San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)

San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)

Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff; Sea of Azov (a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine)

Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)

Abukir; Abukir Bay (a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt)

Hangzhou Bay (a bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea)

Galway Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland)

Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston)

Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)

Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)

Cape Cod Bay (the southern part of Massachusetts Bay)

Buzzards Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts)

Bo Hai; Po Hai (an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China)

Biscayne Bay (a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida)

Bay of Naples (an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples)

Bay of Fundy (a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet)

Bay of Biscay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain)

Bay of Bengal (an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India)

Andaman Sea (part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula)

Holonyms ("embayment" is a part of...):

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