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Bosporus
[ bos-per-uhs ]
noun
- a strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. 18 miles (29 km) long.
Bosporus
/ ˈbɒspərəs; ˈbɒsfərəs /
noun
- the Bosporusthe Bosporus a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
Bosporus
- Strait separating the European and Asian portions of Turkey . The Bosporus is a link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea .
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Other Words From
- Bospo·ran Bos·po·ran·ic [bos-p, uh, -, ran, -ik], Bos·po·ri·an [bo-, spawr, -ee-, uh, n, -, spohr, -], adjective
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Example Sentences
It was dark when we dropped anchor in the mouth of the Bosporus, and we were at dinner—a gala dinner, after which we danced.
Then he got up and tottered over to the window and gazed out on those ships lying just below, on the Bosporus.
From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbor, this arm of the Bosporus is more than seven miles in length.
The Turkish power owes its survival on the soil of Europe to-day wholly to its position on the Bosporus.
They swept by Lothair in their progress to the instrument, like the passage of sultanas to some kiosk on the Bosporus.
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