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What does Bosphorus mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Bosphorus? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (geography) The narrow waterway beside Istanbul connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
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Walking in the night air along the Bosphorus where the city light scintillated on the water, I envied the dervishes their passion, their longing and their faith.
As we chugged across the Bosphorus we passed a school of ferries criss-crossing the straits in their livery of yellow and white.
Tugs were sent to tow the vessels through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea.
The building, whose economical and utilitarian design gives it an imposing solidarity, is still there, situated about 300 metres from the Bosphorus shoreline.
I have seen it on Greek vases, and among the sailors of the Cyclades and on the Bosphorus.
The shores of the Bosphorus were lined with fishermen and a procession of large, slow-moving families enjoying the unusually fine weather.

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