Channel
Channel noun - An open man-made passageway for water.
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Estuary and channel are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Estuary" instead a noun "Channel".
Estuary
Estuary noun - A part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline.
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- Imagine Ireland and the UK are attached to the continent, so that The English Channel is a broad estuary; Scandinavia is a simple vertical coastline sans Denmark; there's no Italy or Greece or Mediterranean visible.
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