windward passage

1. 1.

   a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea

   Broaderchannel

   Part ofAtlantic

Questions about windward passage

What does windward passage mean?

windward passage means "a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea".

Is windward passage a common word?

windward 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.