PUGET SOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Puget Sound mean? 

• PUGET SOUND (noun)
  The noun PUGET SOUND has 1 sense:

1. an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State

  Familiarity information: PUGET SOUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUGET SOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sound (a large ocean inlet or deep bay)

Holonyms ("Puget Sound" is a part of...):

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)

 Context examples 

She was behind time, an' around the Puget Sound ports we worked like niggers, storing cargo-mixed freight, if you know what that means.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)