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Wadden Sea

Wadden Sea proper noun: a shallow and narrow sea peripheral to the North Sea, situated between the Frisian Islands and the mainland coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Proper noun

Wadden Sea

  1. A shallow and narrow sea peripheral to the North Sea, situated between the Frisian Islands and the mainland coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

Origin of Wadden Sea

Partial calque of Dutch Waddenzee, leaving Dutch wadden (“mudflats”) untranslated; compare with Danish Vadehavet and German Wattenmeer.

Questions about Wadden Sea

What does Wadden Sea mean?
Wadden Sea means a shallow and narrow sea peripheral to the North Sea, situated between the Frisian Islands and the mainland coasts of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
What part of speech is Wadden Sea?
Wadden Sea is a proper noun.

Words near Wadden Sea in the dictionary

  1. Waddamana
  2. Waddams
  3. wadded
  4. Waddell
  5. Waddells
  6. Wadden Sea
  7. wadder
  8. wadders
  9. Waddesdon
  10. waddie
  11. waddied

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