INLAND SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Inland Sea mean? 

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

1. an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INLAND SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima

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 ("Inland Sea" is a part of...):

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