Bay of Naples
- proper noun
:
Bahía de Nápoles
- Tourists flock to the Bay of Naples each summer to admire its stunning vistas and enjoy the Mediterranean breeze.
- overlooks the Bay of Naples
Examples
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Claudia enjoys painting landscapes, and today she is focusing on the Bay of Naples from her favorite spot.
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Claudia, sitting with an easel and sketch pad, is sketching the Bay of Naples.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mother and I found an open cafe on a mountain terrace with a view of the entire Bay of Naples.
Fiction book (1998) -
It was a gloriously sunny August afternoon, and the Bay of Naples was filled with pleasure craft.
Blog text (4) -
You can see her twelve-year-old daughter, Daga, reading on a small balcony that overlooks the Bay of Naples.
Fiction book (1995) -
On a clear day, when the haze has burned off the ridges and the sun settles toward the Twin Peaks of Capri, the Bay of Naples stands in glorious relief.
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Their fleet was defeated by the Greeks at the Battle of Cumae in the Bay of Naples in 474 B.C., and eventually, as the Romans grew in power, they conquered and absorbed Etruscan cities.
Academic text (2010) -
In A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius, overlooking Italy's Bay of Naples, erupted for two days, burying Pompeii beneath ash and pumice.
Academic text (2009) -
On a clear day, when the haze has burned off the ridges, the view of the Bay of Naples is simply breathtaking.
Synonyms
A large bay near the city of Naples in southern Italy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally composed from 'bay' (a coastal inlet) plus the place name 'Naples' linked by 'of', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer it denotes the bay by/near Naples. This place-name + geographic-term construction is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent compositional rules, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Bay of Naples literally names the bay, a curve of sea next to the city of Naples. Sailors and visitors used that safe coast for landing and to look at Mount Vesuvius, so today the name means 'the famous coastal area by Naples'.
