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English Channel

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English Channel
An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between western France and southern England. It opens into the North Sea and is traversed by a train-ferry service. A rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, known as the "chunnel," connecting Folkstone, England and Calais, France, was opened in 1994.
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Noun1.English ChannelEnglish Channel - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain
Battle of the Spanish Armada - in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England
Channel Island - any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France
Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
Solent - a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight, Wight - an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel
Translations
English Channel n the English Channel → el Canal de la Mancha
English Channel English n the English Channel → la Manche
English Channel English n the English Channel → der Ärmelkanal
English Channel n the English Channel → il Canale della Manica


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Southerly, at many miles' distance, and over the hills and ridges coastward, she could discern a surface like polished steel: it was the English Channel at a point far out towards France.
It was not until the twelfth century that these Arthurian traditions, the cherished heritage of the Welsh and their cousins, the Bretons across the English Channel in France, were suddenly adopted as the property of all Western Europe, so that Arthur became a universal Christian hero.
Had hoped when in the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere.
 
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