Gulf of Venice

短语

na. 威尼斯湾 [网络] 威尼斯海湾

词形变化

the Gulf of Venice

别名

Gulph of Venice

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    Synonym of Adriatic Sea.

    古体

    CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, ſituated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Theſſaly...

  2. 2.

    A wide gulf at the north end of the Adriatic Sea, bound on the south by the line between Maestra Point in the Po delta and Cape Kamenjak on the Istrian Peninsula.

    非正式

词源

Calque of Italian Golfo di Venetia, from consideration of the sea as a gulf of the Mediterranean and the previous importance of the Republic of Venice to its trade and major ports.

来源：wiktionary