What is another word for English Channel?

Pronunciation: [ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ t͡ʃˈanə͡l] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the English Channel, a stretch of water that separates England and France. It is also known as the Channel, La Manche (French for "the sleeve"), or simply as the sea. Other terms used include the Dover Strait, as it is narrowest between Dover and Calais, and the Narrow Seas, owing to its relatively shallow depth and the many ships that have sailed through it over the centuries. The English Channel has played a significant role in European history, serving as a barrier and a gateway, and its name reflects its importance as a cultural and geographical landmark.

What are the hypernyms for English channel?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with English channel

  • I know all about you. You're the people waiting on the shoreline with the warm towels and the hot chocolate after the woman swims the English Channel.
    Gwen Moore
  • So why fret and care that the actual version of the destined deed was done by an upper class English gentleman who had circumnavigated the globe as a vigorous youth, lost his dearest daughter and his waning faith at the same time, wrote the greatest treatise ever composed on the taxonomy of barnacles, and eventually grew a white beard, lived as a country squire just south of London, and never again traveled far enough even to cross the English Channel? We care for the same reason that we love okapis, delight in the fossil evidence of trilobites, and mourn the passage of the dodo. We care because the broad events that had to happen, happened to happen . And something unspeakably holy—I don't know how else to say this—underlies our discovery and confirmation of the actual details that made our world and also, in realms of contingency, assured the minutiae of its construction in the manner we know, and not in any one of a trillion other ways, nearly all of which would not have included the evolution of a scribe to record the beauty, the cruelty, the fascination, and the mystery.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • Our passionate adherence to democracy and freedom is based on the spiritual recognition of the Divinity of man. We are not only not communal but we are nationalists and democrats. The Anti-Fascist Front must extend from the English Channel to the Bay of Bengal.
    Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee

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