ENGLISH CHANNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does English Channel mean? 

• ENGLISH CHANNEL (noun)
  The noun ENGLISH CHANNEL has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain

  Familiarity information: ENGLISH CHANNEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENGLISH CHANNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

channel (a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels)

Meronyms (parts of "English Channel"):

Channel Island (any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France)

Solent (a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight)

Isle of Wight; Wight (an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel)

Domain member region:

Battle of the Spanish Armada (in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England)

Holonyms ("English Channel" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped when in the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A country in Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain.

(France, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

On 4 August 2019, French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crossed the English Channel on a jet-powered freeflight flying device propelled by turbines and attached to his feet, called Flyboard Air.

(French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crosses English Channel on jet-powered hoverboard, Wikinews)