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WINDWARD PASSAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Windward Passage mean? 

WINDWARD PASSAGE (noun)
  The noun WINDWARD PASSAGE has 1 sense:

1. a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Seaplay

  Familiarity information: WINDWARD PASSAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WINDWARD PASSAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

channel (a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels)

Holonyms ("Windward Passage" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)


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