SOLENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Solent mean? 

• SOLENT (noun)
  The noun SOLENT has 1 sense:

1. a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

  Familiarity information: SOLENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

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 ("Solent" is a part of...):

English Channel (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain)

 Context examples 

The yellow cog had now shot out from the narrow waters of the Solent, and was plunging and rolling on the long heave of the open channel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would brighten my declining years to see a German cruiser navigating the Solent according to the mine-field plans which I have furnished.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The languid loungers of St. James’s were also the yachtsmen of the Solent, the fine riders of the shires, and the hardy fighters in many a wayside battle and many a morning frolic.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To right and left the long blue curve of the Solent lapped in a fringe of foam upon the yellow beach.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)