MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mediterranean Sea mean? 

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

1. the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDITERRANEAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Mediterranean Sea"):

Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)

Tyrrhenian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily)

Perejil (a small uninhabited Mediterranean islet claimed by both Morocco and Spain)

Ligurian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica)

Ionian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy)

Gulf of Sidra (wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya)

Gulf of Antalya (a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey)

Cyprus (an island in the eastern Mediterranean)

Adriatic; Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west)

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

Malta (a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea)

Corse; Corsica (an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France)

Sicilia; Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean)

Sardegna; Sardinia (an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy)

Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)

Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)

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

mare nostrum ((our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans)

 Context examples 

A country in northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia.

(Algeria, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries abutting the Mediterranean Sea, principally those of Europe.

(Mediterranean, NCI Thesaurus)

Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the North Sea and from the Rhine River to the Atlantic Ocean.

(Metropolitan France, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, south of Spain and between Algeria and Western Sahara.

(Morocco, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria.

(Lebanon, NCI Thesaurus)

An island in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Turkey.

(Cyprus, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia.

(Algeria, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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)

Located in the Apuseni Mountains, the region surrounding the Scărișoara Ice Cave receives precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and is an ideal location to study shifts in the courses storms follow across East and Central Europe.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

But this species, Olea hensoni, has gone rogue, joining two other sacoglossan species – Olea hansineensis in the northeast Pacific Ocean and Calliopaea bellula in the Mediterranean Sea – that abandoned a diet of seaweed to prey on the eggs of their fellow slugs and snails.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)