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    BLACK SEA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeansplay

    Synonyms:

    Black Sea; Euxine Sea

    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 "Black Sea"):

    Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff; Sea of Azov (a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine)

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     Context examples: 

    Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:—As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since by that way he come.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the fog was lifted; but whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would or no.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)


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