Adriatic Sea

American  

noun

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula.

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Adriatic Sea British  

noun

1. an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula

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Adriatic Sea Cultural  

1. An arm of the Mediterranean Sea bordered by Italy to the west and north, and Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, and Albania to the east.

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Example Sentences

The Ford strike group had been operating in the Adriatic Sea when it was ordered on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Higher temperatures in the Adriatic Sea are encouraging invasive species such as the poisonous lionfish, while also causing further stress on alpine glaciers that are already shrinking at record rates.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Basketball Hall of Famer and former Lakers fan favorite Vlade Divac broke his hip Thursday when he fell from his motorcycle while riding near the Adriatic Sea coast in Montenegro.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2025

Montenegro, a picturesque Adriatic Sea country of about 620,000 people, was once considered the first in line to join the EU from the Western Balkans.

From Washington Times • Jun. 10, 2023

With them this time was the twenty-four- year-old fighter-pilot captain with the sparse golden mustache who had been shot into the Adriatic Sea in midwinter and not even caught cold.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller