| Meaning | An indentation of a shoreline larger / larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf. |
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| Synonym | embayment |
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| Instances | Abukir, Abukir Bay | A bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt |
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| Andaman Sea | Part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula |
| Bay of Bengal | An arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India |
| Bay of Biscay | An arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe |
| Bay of Fundy | A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia |
| Bay of Naples | An arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples |
| Biscayne Bay | A narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida |
| Bo Hai, Po Hai | An inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China |
| Buzzards Bay | An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts |
| Cape Cod Bay | The southern part of Massachusetts Bay |
| Chesapeake Bay | A large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland |
| Delaware Bay | An inlet of the North Atlantic |
| Galveston Bay | An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston |
| Galway Bay | A bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland |
| Hangzhou Bay | A bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea |
| James Bay | The southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario |
| Korea Bay | An inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea |
| Massachusetts Bay | An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south |
| Minamata Bay | A bay on the west coast of Kyushu |
| Mobile Bay | A bay of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Monterey Bay | An inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California |
| Moreton Bay | An arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane |
| Narragansett Bay | A deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island |
| New York Bay | A bay of the North Atlantic |
| Osaka Bay | A bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu |
| Penobscot Bay | An inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine |
| Prudhoe Bay | A bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 |
| San Diego Bay | A bay of the Pacific in southern California |
| San Francisco Bay | A bay of the Pacific in western California |
| Sea of Azov, Sea of Azof, Sea of Azoff | A bay of the Black Sea between Russia and the Ukraine |
| Tampa Bay | An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida |
| Part of | sea | A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land |
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| Narrower | Guantanamo Bay | An inlet of the Caribbean Sea |
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| bight | A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline |
| Broader | body of water, water | The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) |
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| Spanish | bahía |
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| Catalan | badia |
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