SEA OF AZOF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sea of Azof mean? 

• SEA OF AZOF (noun)
  The noun SEA OF AZOF has 1 sense:

1. a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA OF AZOF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff; Sea of Azov

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Sea of Azof" is a part of...):

Black Sea; Euxine Sea (a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans)

 Context examples 

For two days the Hon. Philip Green (he was, I may mention, the son of the famous admiral of that name who commanded the Sea of Azof fleet in the Crimean War) brought us no news.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)