cook strait

1. 1.

   a narrow strait separating the North Island and South Island in New Zealand

   Broaderstrait

   Part ofNew Zealand

Questions about cook strait

What does cook strait mean?

cook strait means "a narrow strait separating the North Island and South Island in New Zealand".

Is cook strait a common word?

cook strait 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.