Definition of Bay of Bengal

1. Noun. An arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India.

Terms within: Andaman Sea
Generic synonyms: Bay, Embayment
Group relationships: Indian Ocean

Definition of Bay of Bengal

1. Proper noun. A sea that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bay Of Bengal

Bavarian
Bavarian Forest
Bavarian blue
Bavarian cream
Bavins
Bawku
Baxter
Bay
Bay Miwok
Bay State
Bay Stater
Bay Staters
Bay Street
Bay fever
Bay fevers
Bay of Bengal (current term)
Bay of Biscay
Bay of Campeche
Bay of Fundy
Bay of Mecklenburg
Bay of Naples
Bay of Ob
Bayard
Bayard of ten toes
Baycol
Bayer
Bayer's patches
Bayer designation
Bayer designations
Bayer system

Literary usage of Bay of Bengal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"Bay of Bengal : Coromandel coast, sheet 3 : From lat. 13°0' to lat. ... Bay of Bengal:—White point to Mergin. 1480. China, north-east coast :—Yang-tse- ..."

2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"... from which town it takes a tortuous westerly direction through Chittagong District, and finally empties itself into the Bay of Bengal, in lat. ..."

3. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society by Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Cyclonic Storms in the Bay of Bengal.—Mr. J. Eliot has recently published a second edition of his Handbook of Cyclonic Storms in the Bay of Bengal, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"Extracts from a Paper on the Surface Currents of the Bay of Bengal during the SW Monsoon. By Lieut JA HEATH COTE, IN (See p. 101). Ceylon. ..."

5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"... FES, Bay of Bengal, 1803 fms ; II. tener, FES, Bay of Bengal, 1370-1540 fms: described. Schulze, FE An account of the Indian ..."

6. Geographical and Industrial Studies; Asia by Nellie Burnham Allen (1916)
"CHAPTER XVI BEYOND THE Bay of Bengal Besides India and Ceylon there are other British possessions in Asia which we have not yet seen, and we will cross the ..."

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