English Explanatory Dictionary

Gulf of Venice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of Adriatic Sea.
  2. A wide gulf at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, bound on the south by the line between Maestra Point in the Po delta and Cape Kamenjak on the Istrian Peninsula.

Word forms

Gulf of Venice the Gulf of Venice Gulph of Venice

Etymology

Calque of Italian Golfo di Venetia, from consideration of the sea as a gulf of the Mediterranean and the previous importance of the Republic of Venice to its trade and major ports.

Synonyms

Adriatic Sea
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