bosporus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route

WordNet

Bos"po*rus noun
Etymology
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Definitions
  1. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. Written also Bosphorus.

Webster 1913