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IRISH SEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Irish Sea mean?
• IRISH SEA (noun)
The noun IRISH SEA has 1 sense:
1. an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
Familiarity information: IRISH SEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
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 ("Irish Sea" is a part of...):
North Atlantic (that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator)
Context examples
An island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland.
(Isle of Man, NCI Thesaurus)
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