Bosporus

[ bos-per-uhs ]

noun

1. a strait connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. 18 miles (29 km) long.

Bosporus

/ ˈbɒspərəs; ˈbɒsfərəs /

noun

1. the Bosporus
   a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara

Bosporus

1. Strait separating the European and Asian portions of Turkey . The Bosporus is a link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea .

Notes

It is an important shipping route for Russia , whose northern routes are mostly blocked by ice in winter, and for other nations that border the Black Sea or use any of the many major rivers that flow into it.

Other Words From

• Bospo·ran Bos·po·ran·ic [bos-p, uh, -, ran, -ik], Bos·po·ri·an [bo-, spawr, -ee-, uh, n, -, spohr, -], adjective

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.

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Then he got up and tottered over to the window and gazed out on those ships lying just below, on the Bosporus.

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From the mouth of the Lycus to that of the harbor, this arm of the Bosporus is more than seven miles in length.

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The Turkish power owes its survival on the soil of Europe to-day wholly to its position on the Bosporus.

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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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