verrazano narrows

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   a narrow channel of water separating Staten Island and Brooklyn

   Broadernarrow

   Part ofNew York

Questions about verrazano narrows

What does verrazano narrows mean?

verrazano narrows means "a narrow channel of water separating Staten Island and Brooklyn".

Is verrazano narrows a common word?

verrazano narrows 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.