Associations to the word «Bosporus»

Wiktionary

BOSPORUS, proper noun. Alternative spelling of Bosphorus
BOSPORUS, noun. A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a sea.

Dictionary definition

BOSPORUS, noun. A strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats