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Meaning of Gulf of Venice | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Adriatic Sea.
    archaic
  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.
    informal

Examples

“CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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