Black Sea
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3.3
- proper noun
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Mar Negro
- Breaking news, the Russian armed forces are now revealing the information they've acquired from both of their landing sites and have declared the Black Sea a demilitarized zone.
- Black Sea region
- Black Sea Fleet
- Black Sea port
It's along the Black Sea in modern day Turkey.
- It's along the Black Sea in modern day Turkey.
- AUS Drum was on a spying mission over the Black Sea.
- He tried to build a Russian fleet which could go down the Volga and towards the Black Sea.
- Actual video of the Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on that American drone that was downed over the Black Sea.
- They are headed to the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov in order to link up or in order to to cut you in half, it would make.
- And when you say the Black Sea Fleet, they're all the big ships, right?
- The genetics of the Peraca skulls from Peru came from the Armenian Black Sea area of Lake Vaughan.
- The pilots making stunning blows against Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
Examples
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Report by Soviet high command on their recent naval exercises in the Black Sea.
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Go to the port town of Varna, on the Black Sea.
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I was born on a small island in the Black Sea.
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It's along the Black Sea in modern day Turkey.
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The resulting flood forced the abandonment of the Black Sea settlements.
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In other words, the Black Sea basin is regarded as the "soft underbelly" of the Russian homeland.
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The oil is put onboard the tankers, shipped across the Black Sea, down to Istanbul.
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The city of Stavropol is in the Caucasus, an area in Russia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
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According to the Montreux Convention, Turkey controls the Black Sea navigation routes of Romania, Bulgaria, and the CIS.
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I was born on a small island in the Black Sea.
Synonyms
An old name for the Black Sea between southeastern Europe and western Asia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Black + sea
The phrase is compositionally built from 'black' + 'sea', so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a sea (i.e., a large body of water) and likely recognise it as a named body of water. However, as a proper name the specific geographic referent and the reason for the adjective 'Black' are not predictable from the constituents, so the full meaning/usage is not completely derivable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Black Sea comes from an old naming idea: people used colors for directions, and the color black meant 'north', so the sea to the north was called the Black Sea, which is why that name stuck for the sea between Europe and Asia.