Dictionary entry details
• EMBAYMENT (noun)
Meaning:
An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
bay; embayment
Hypernyms ("embayment" is a kind of...):
body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "embayment"):
bight (a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline)
Instance hyponyms:
Abukir; Abukir Bay (a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt)
Massachusetts Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south)
Minamata Bay (a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay)
Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)
Monterey Bay (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California)
Moreton Bay (an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay east of Brisbane)
Narragansett Bay (a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island)
New York Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River)
Osaka Bay (a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu)
Penobscot Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine)
Prudhoe Bay (a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968)
San Diego Bay (a bay of the Pacific in southern California)
San Francisco Bay (a bay of the Pacific in western California)
Sea of Azof; Sea of Azoff; Sea of Azov (a bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine)
Korea Bay (an inlet of the Yellow Sea between northeastern China and western Korea)
James Bay (the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario)
Andaman Sea (part of the Bay of Bengal west of the Malay Peninsula)
Bay of Bengal (an arm of the Indian Ocean east of India)
Bay of Biscay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain)
Bay of Fundy (a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet)
Bay of Naples (an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples)
Biscayne Bay (a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida)
Buzzards Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts)
Cape Cod Bay (the southern part of Massachusetts Bay)
Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)
Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)
Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas south of Houston)
Galway Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland)
Hangzhou Bay (a bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea)
Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)
Holonyms ("embayment" is a part of...):
sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)
