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A bay is an inlet along the shoreline of a body of water. A bay window occupies a similar inlet in a room. When you keep someone "at bay" you hold them off.

The different meanings of bay come from different origins. For example, the idea of the word as a cove comes from the Latin bāia, while the idea of an opening is a wall is from the Latin batāre, meaning "gape." The word that means a dog's howl, however, comes from the Latin baubari, which means "to bark." Other meanings of this versatile word include a horse with reddish coloring, and a tree with leaves used to add flavor in cooking. There's nothing quite like riding a bay along the scenic bay while listening to the hounds bay!

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bay

1	n	an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
2	n	a small recess opening off a larger room
3	n adj	a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color
4	n v	the sound of a hound on the scent utter in deep prolonged tones
5	n	small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bay

n an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

Synonyms:: embayment

Examples:: show 33 examples...; hide 33 examples...; Abukir Bay
a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt; 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; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain; Bay of Fundy
a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet; 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
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; fed by Susquehanna River; Delaware Bay
an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River; 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; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay; Mobile Bay
a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River; 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; fed by the Hudson River; 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 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; Bight of Benin
a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa; Great Australian Bight
a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms

Types:: bight
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; Guantanamo Bay
an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903

Type of:: body of water, water
the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)

n a small recess opening off a larger room

Synonyms:: alcove

Types:: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall
small individual study area in a library

Type of:: niche, recess
an enclosure that is set back or indented

n a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital

“they put him in the sick bay”

Type of:: compartment
a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

n a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose

“he opened the bomb bay”

Type of:: compartment
a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

n a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color

Type of:: Equus caballus, horse
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

adj (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

Synonyms: colored, colorful, coloured
having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

n the sound of a hound on the scent

Type of:: cry
the characteristic utterance of an animal

v utter in deep prolonged tones

Type of:: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
express in speech

v bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

Synonyms:: quest

Type of:: bark
make barking sounds

n small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

Synonyms:: Laurus nobilis, bay laurel, bay tree, true laurel

Type of:: laurel
any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family

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