SOUTH CHINA SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South China Sea mean? 

• SOUTH CHINA SEA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH CHINA SEA has 1 sense:

1. a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH CHINA SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons

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 "South China Sea"):

Formosa; Taiwan (an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea)

China; Nationalist China; Republic of China; Taiwan (a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong)

Singapore; Singapore Island (an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula)

Gulf of Siam; Gulf of Thailand (an arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula)

Holonyms ("South China Sea" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

A special administrative region of China, bordering the South China Sea, east of Macao.

(Hong Kong, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and surrounded by Malaysia.

(Brunei Darussalam, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in southeastern Asia, comprised of an archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam.

(Philippines, NCI Thesaurus)