bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bā
ipa: /beɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: bae
homophone: bey
Forms: form: bays
Etymology: From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.
Senses: examples: text: This hotel has a great view across the bay.
text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
glosses: A bank or dam to keep back water.
Synonyms: sense: body of water
word: gulf
Derived terms: word: afterbay
word: bay breeze
word: bay duiker
word: bayfront
word: Bay Islands
word: bayless
word: baylet
word: baylike
word: bayman
word: bay owl
word: bayplan
word: bay salt
word: Bay Shore
word: bayside
word: Baystater
word: baywop
word: bebay
word: Cenderawasih Bay
word: Chesapeake Bay Retriever
word: Cutler Bay
word: embay
word: embayment
word: forebay
word: Greater Bay Area
word: imbay
word: Malibu bay breeze
word: midbay
word: multibay
word: Palmetto Bay
word: sickbay
word: subbay
word: Swansea Bay
word: transbay
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word: Algoa Bay
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word: Amerika Bay
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word: Back Bay
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word: Baglan Bay
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word: Barnegat Bay
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word: Barrow Bay
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word: Bay Bulls
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word: Bay City
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word: Bay County
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word: Bay de Verde
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word: Bay Head
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word: Bay L'Argent
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word: Bay of Bengal
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word: Bay of Biscay
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word: Bay of Islands
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word: Bay of Kotor
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word: Bay of Mexico
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word: Bay of Plenty
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word: Bay of Quinte
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word: Bay Roberts
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word: Bay St. Louis
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word: Birchy Bay
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word: Biscayne Bay
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word: Blind Bay
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word: Brig Bay
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word: Byron Bay
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word: Canada Bay
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word: Carbis Bay
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word: Cardiff Bay
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word: Cardigan Bay
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word: Castlebay
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word: Colwyn Bay
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word: Conception Bay
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word: Cow Bay
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word: Cruden Bay
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word: Dalgety Bay
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word: Deadman's Bay
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word: Deep Bay
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word: Delaware Bay
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word: Dingle Bay
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word: Donegal Bay
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word: Dvina Bay
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word: East Bay
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word: Flat Bay
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word: Georgian Bay
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word: Glace Bay
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word: Goose Bay
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word: Grassy Bay
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word: Guantanamo Bay
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word: Halibut Bay
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word: Hạ Long Bay
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word: Hampton Bays
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word: Hare Bay
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word: Hawke Bay
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word: Hawke's Bay
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word: Holdfast Bay
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word: Hudson Bay
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word: Indian Bay
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word: Ise Bay
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word: Jamaica Bay
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word: Jervis Bay
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word: Jervis Bay Territory
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word: Jordan Bay
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word: Kāneʻohe Bay
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word: Kinmel Bay
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word: Kinmel Bay and Towyn
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word: Kuwait Bay
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word: Lake of Bays
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word: Largo Bay
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word: Little Bay
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word: Lodge Bay
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word: Logy Bay
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word: Loon Bay
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word: Lyme Bay
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word: Mahone Bay
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word: Massachusetts Bay
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word: Mitchell Bay
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word: Morecambe Bay
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word: Moreton Bay
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word: Moreton Bay ash
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word: Nakhodka Bay
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word: Nelson Bay
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word: Norman's Bay
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word: Normans Bay
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word: North Bay
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word: Northern Bay
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word: Notre Dame Bay
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word: Oak Bay
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word: Ormoc Bay
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word: Oyster Bay
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word: Palm Bay
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word: Pavlof Bay
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word: Pelly Bay
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word: Pevensey Bay
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word: Placentia Bay
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word: Pleasant Bay
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word: Point of Bay
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word: Prospect Bay
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word: Prudhoe Bay
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word: Pukerua Bay
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word: Red Bay
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word: Red Wharf Bay
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word: Resolute Bay
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word: Robin Hood's Bay
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word: Rose Bay
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word: Round Bay
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word: Saltery Bay
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word: Sandy Bay
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word: San Francisco Bay
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word: Scots Bay
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word: Shad Bay
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word: Shark Bay
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word: Shoal Bay
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word: Southern Bay
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word: Spaniard's Bay
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word: Spanish Ship Bay
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word: Spring Bay
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word: Spry Bay
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word: St Austell Bay
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word: St Brides Bay
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word: St Margaret's Bay
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word: St Mary's Bay
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word: Stokes Bay
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word: Suttons Bay
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word: Swansea Bay
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word: Table Bay
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word: Temryuk Bay
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word: Terence Bay
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word: Thorpe Bay
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word: Torbay
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word: Tosa Bay
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word: Totland Bay
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word: Trinity Bay
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word: Tumby Bay
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word: Walvis Bay
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word: Warners Bay
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word: Wemyss Bay
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word: West Bay
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word: Western Bay
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word: Whitefish Bay
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word: Whitley Bay
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word: Witless Bay
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word: Wool Bay
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word: Woy Woy Bay