bay of bengal

1. 1.

   an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India

   Broaderbay

   Part ofIndian Ocean

   PartsAndaman Sea

Questions about bay of bengal

What does bay of bengal mean?

bay of bengal means "an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India".

Is bay of bengal a common word?

bay of bengal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.