NORTH SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Sea mean? 

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

1. an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970

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)

Meronyms (parts of "North Sea"):

Orkney Islands (an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland)

Kattegatt (a strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Sweden; connects with the North Sea through the Skagerrak)

Skagerak; Skagerrak (a broad strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Norway)

Zuider Zee (a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer)

Holonyms ("North Sea" 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 

If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God seems to have deserted us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A squadron is starting for the North Sea and another for the Irish Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, consisting of a peninsula on the north coast of Germany and several major islands.

(Denmark, 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 central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.

(Germany, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn).

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)