Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun strait_of_magellan

1 sense of strait of magellan

Sense 1
Strait of Magellan -- (the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built)
       INSTANCE OF=> strait, sound -- (a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water)