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ZUIDER ZEE

• ZUIDER ZEE (noun)
The noun ZUIDER ZEE has 1 sense:

1. a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer

Familiarity information: ZUIDER ZEE used as a noun is very rare.

• ZUIDER ZEE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

inlet; recess (an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands))

Holonyms ("Zuider Zee" is a part of...):

North Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970)

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(Breton proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
"Be patient with a bad neighbor. Maybe he’ll leave or a disaster will take him out."
(Egyptian proverb)

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