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MENAI STRAIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Menai Strait mean?
• MENAI STRAIT (noun)
The noun MENAI STRAIT has 1 sense:
1. a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland
Familiarity information: MENAI STRAIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
sound; strait (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)
Holonyms ("Menai Strait" is a part of...):
Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)
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