inland passage

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   a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska

   SynonymsInside Passage

   Broaderwaterway

   Part ofWashingtonBritish ColumbiaAlaska

Questions about inland passage

What does inland passage mean?

inland passage means "a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska".

What is another word for inland passage?

Close synonyms include Inside Passage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inland passage a common word?

inland passage 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.