Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
Alternative spelling of Bosphorus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: strait, sound
History
Latin
