Word: Bays
How to pronounce: beɪ
Noun
Definitions:
1. A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards.
Example sentences: "A boat trip round the bay"
Noun
Definitions:
1. An evergreen Mediterranean shrub with deep green leaves and purple berries. Its aromatic leaves are used in cooking and were formerly used to make triumphal crowns for victors.
Example sentences: "The experiment (conducted May - June 2000) tested whole and torn leaves from 10 bay trees, 10 oak trees, and 10 toyon trees at our research site."
Noun
Definitions:
1. A space created by a window line projecting outwards from a wall.
Example sentences: "Each window projects as a bay, with a base low enough to sit on and wide enough to serve as a generous shelf for flowers and cards."
2. A compartment with a specified function in a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.
Example sentences: "A bomb bay"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. (of a horse) brown with black points.
Example sentences: "This is not equine racism, just the obvious conclusion that the brown, black and bay horses are in the vast majority, and can always gang up on a grey, especially when I have bet on it."
Noun
Definitions:
1. A bay horse.
Example sentences: "It was a bay, with a liver chestnut body and gleaming black legs."
Verb
Definitions:
1. (of a dog, especially a large one) bark or howl loudly.
Example sentences: "The dogs bayed"
Noun
Definitions:
1. The sound of baying.
Example sentences: "The bloodhounds' heavy bay"
Synonyms:
gulf
embayment
cove
bight
creek
firth
loch
bay window
oriel
oriel window
alcove
harbour
harbor
sorrel
inlet
fjord
bay tree
chamber
cell
cubicle
cabin
Derivations:
bayed
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Bays in Other Languages...
Spanish: Bay
German: Badebuchten
French: Baie
Italian: Baia
Turkish: ün
