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Meaning of Bosporus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.
    archaic
  2. Alternative spelling of Bosphorus.
    alt-of, alternative

Examples

“It has, however, a narrow channel, the straits of Yenikale, which is also a bosporus, called the Cimmerian for distinction, across which, before the earliest historic ages, the Cimmerii, or Cimbri, are said to have been conducted by a heifer[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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