Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. It extends from the Gulf of Venice southward to the Strait of Otranto, which links it to the Ionian Sea.
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- proper noun The
sea that stretches from theIonian Sea to the Gulf of Venice. It is located between theItalian andBalkan peninsulas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the Adriatic Sea were a great number of marshy islands, separated only by narrow channels, but well screened and almost inaccessible, inhabited by a few fishermen.
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Canal, constructed by Clement XII in 1736, connects the city and the wet dock with Porto Corsini, on the Adriatic Sea, which is now five miles away.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Our resort is on a peninsula overlooking the Adriatic Sea, which is nice, but we're all kind of eager to move on to the next section of our adventures.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Illyria was actually an ancient region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea covering parts of modern Croatia, Montenegro, and Albania.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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During the X-24 exercise, a simulated earthquake struck in the Adriatic Sea and propelled a tsunami ashore in Montenegro.
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During the X-24 exercise, a simulated earthquake struck in the Adriatic Sea and propelled a tsunami ashore in Montenegro.
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The boat's captain told us that the dolphin sighting in this part of the Adriatic Sea occurred from time to time but were not common.
Andy Plesser: WATCH: Dolphins Spotted Off The Dalmatian Coast Andy Plesser 2011
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During the X-24 exercise, a simulated earthquake struck in the Adriatic Sea and propelled a tsunami ashore in Montenegro.
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Over the past three years, Ms. Curry's practice has expanded to a series of scrappy art-filled rafts sailed with friends and fellow artists on the Hudson and Mississippi Rivers and through the Adriatic Sea and the construction of an eco-friendly community center in Haiti.
A Street Artist Steps Inside Rachel Wolff 2011
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Venice was always different, from the time when a handful of refugees from the mainland first occupied the mud banks of a lagoon at the head of the Adriatic Sea in 568 until Napoleon extinguished the republic in 1797, inspiring William Wordsworth to write one of his best sonnets:
The Doges of War William H. McNeill 2012
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