Definitions
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- proper noun An arm of the
Baltic Sea that separates the European countries ofEstonia andFinland . On its eastern end, theNeva at the Russian city ofSt. Petersburg empties into it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an eastern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Finland and Estonia
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Examples
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But as a cold rain blew in from the Gulf of Finland, some harsh words were heard at a packed panel on Russian-American economic ties.
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But as a cold rain blew in from the Gulf of Finland, some harsh words were heard at a packed panel on Russian-American economic ties.
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But as a cold rain blew in from the Gulf of Finland, some harsh words were heard at a packed panel on Russian-American economic ties.
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But as a cold rain blew in from the Gulf of Finland, some harsh words were heard at a packed panel on Russian-American economic ties.
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On the southern side of the Gulf of Finland, Soviet bombers had attacked the fortresses of Aegna and Naissaari, but without much success.
DBTL 16B: Tora! Tora! Tora! Johnny Pez 2010
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The first wave of the attack headed south, in the middle of the autumn storm in the darkness over the Gulf of Finland.
DBTL 16B: Tora! Tora! Tora! Johnny Pez 2010
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Between meetings with visiting regional leaders at the Konstantinovsky Palace, his official residence here overlooking the Gulf of Finland, the president sat down in a hall painted with satyrs to survey the world.
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During brief northern summers we sloshed through a swamp to the shallow waters of the Gulf of Finland, warm and yellow as weak tea; we scooped mushrooms out of the forest moss and hung them on thread over the stove to dry for the winter.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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During brief northern summers we sloshed through a swamp to the shallow waters of the Gulf of Finland, warm and yellow as weak tea; we scooped mushrooms out of the forest moss and hung them on thread over the stove to dry for the winter.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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There are many vessels that I would like to discover, among others the Estonian submarine Kalev, which was incorporated into Red Navy in 1940 and lost by the Russians in Gulf of Finland in 1941.
Under the Baltic 2008
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