torres strait

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   a strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea

   Broaderstrait

Questions about torres strait

What does torres strait mean?

torres strait means "a strait between northeastern Australia and southern New Guinea that connects the Coral Sea with the Arafura Sea".

Is torres strait a common word?

torres 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.