adriatic

Speech parts

1. adriatic - Noun

2. adriatic - Adjective

3. Adriatic - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

european italian baltic slavic aegean caucasian nordic Iberian mediterranean alpine Balkan Adriatic Sea carpathian Benelux danubian
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Phrases with the word

adriatic islands Adriatic sturgeon adriatic europe adriatic region adriatic fig white adriatic fig

Examples

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Winston Churchill

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. John Cheever

You all know, even better than I do, that children, e. g. from Denmark, can get on their bicycles and cycle off to the Adriatic. No one would ever think of suggesting that they were "teenage spies." Andrei Sakharov

I don't want a fortnight on the Costa del Sol Don't wanna go to Bognor - it's a plague-ridden hole and it don't fit in with my ideology... Down the Adriatic to the Vlora bay Twenty pints of Fosters and I'm away 'Cos now I know just where I wanna be: Albania - that's the place for me! Attila the Stockbroker

You all know, even better than I do, that children, e.g. from Denmark, can get on their bicycles and cycle off to the Adriatic. No one would ever think of suggesting that they were "teenage spies". But Soviet children are not allowed to do this! Andrei Sakharov

A 900-kilometer U.S.- financed alternate route, known as the AMBO pipeline, would bring oil from Burgas across Bulgaria and Macedonia to the Albanian port of Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, bypassing both the Bosporus and Greece. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Adrianople red Adrianopolis Adrianopolitan adriatic europe Adriatic Gulf adriatic islands