Black Sea

American  

[blak see] / ˈblæk ˈsi /

noun

1. a sea between Europe and Asia, bordered by Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Russian Federation. 164,000 sq. mi. (424,760 sq. km).

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Black Sea British  

noun

1. Ancient names: Pontus Euxinus.   Euxine Sea.  an inland sea between SE Europe and Asia: connected to the Aegean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, and to the Sea of Azov by the Kerch Strait. Area: about 415 000 sq km (160 000 sq miles)

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Black Sea Cultural  

1. Sea between Europe and Asia, bordered on the north by Moldova and Ukraine, on the northeast by Russia, on the east by Georgia, on the south by Turkey, and on the west by Bulgaria and Romania. It receives many great rivers, including the Danube, the Dnieper, and by way of the Sea of Azov, the Don.

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It is a popular resort area for Russians and eastern Europeans.

Example Sentences

Ukraine, whose conventional navy, like Iran’s, has been largely destroyed, has used naval drones to target Russian warships, decimating the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of the Dynacom tankers that passed through the Strait this week, Smyrni, was just back from shipping crude from one of Russia’s Black Sea ports to India.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, nearly all of such strikes have been in the Black Sea, which Russia and Ukraine both share.

From BBC

Last year an attack on the nearby port of Pivdennyi hit a sunflower oil storage tank, polluting the Black Sea coast.

From Barron's

A former lawyer who had retrained as a baker at a trendy cafe in the Black Sea city, he joined the Ukrainian army a year later.

From Barron's