TAMPA BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tampa Bay mean? 

• TAMPA BAY (noun)
  The noun TAMPA BAY has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida

  Familiarity information: TAMPA BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAMPA BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Tampa Bay" is a part of...):

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)

Golfo de Mexico; Gulf of Mexico (an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico)