NORWEGIAN SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Norwegian Sea mean? 

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

1. the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORWEGIAN SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea

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 "Norwegian Sea"):

Lofoten (a string of islands off the northwestern coast of Norway in the Norwegian Sea)

Holonyms ("Norwegian 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 

An island group between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway.

(Faroe Islands, NCI Thesaurus)