'Straits' definitions:
Definition of 'straits'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Straits'
From: GCIDE
- Strait \Strait\, n.; pl. Straits. [OE. straight, streit, OF. estreit, estroit. See Strait, a.]
- 1. A narrow pass or passage. [1913 Webster]
- He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically: (Geog.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. [1913 Webster]
- We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A neck of land; an isthmus. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- A dark strait of barren land. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. [1913 Webster]
- For I am in a strait betwixt two. --Phil. i. 23. [1913 Webster]
- Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. --Broome. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'straits'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arm,
- armlet,
- bay,
- bayou,
- belt,
- bight,
- bind,
- boca,
- broken fortune,
- clutch,
- complication,
- cove,
- creek,
- crunch,
- difficulties,
- distress,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fjord,
- frith,
- genteel poverty,
- gulf,
- gut,
- harbor,
- hard pinch,
- hardship,
- hell to pay,
- hobble,
- hot water,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- impecuniosity,
- impecuniousness,
- inlet,
- insolvency,
- jam,
- kyle,
- light purse,
- loch,
- mess,
- mix,
- morass,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow means,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- poorness,
- poverty,
- predicament,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- reach,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- scrape,
- slender means,
- slough,
- sound,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- strait,
- straitened circumstances,
- swamp,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- unholy mess,
- unprosperousness,
- voluntary poverty,
- vows of poverty
Words containing 'Straits'
- Strait,
- Straitly,
- Straitness,
- bering strait,
- cook strait,
- desperate straits,
- dire straits,
- korea strait,
- korean strait,
- menai strait,
- strait and narrow,
- strait of calais,
- strait of dover,
- strait of georgia,
- strait of gibraltar,
- strait of hormuz,
- strait of magellan,
- strait of messina,
- strait of ormuz,
- torres strait,
- Strait-handed,
- Strait-handedness,
- Strait-jacket,
- Strait-laced,
- Strait-waistcoat,
- kammon strait bridge