🇬🇧🇨🇳 bay - 湾 : English Lesson

Meaning of "bay" ("湾"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A bay is a place where the sea or ocean gently curves into the land, like a big watery scoop. If you look at a map, it looks like a bite has been taken out of the coastline. Water from the sea fills this curved space, and land is around it on three sides. Bays are often calmer than the open ocean, so boats like to park there, animals live there, and people might swim, play, or build ports there.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

From the hill, the bay looked like the world’s biggest soup bowl, and our boat was the lonely noodle.

The octopus in the bay probably thinks people are weird squishy things that forgot to grow extra arms.

We had a picnic by the bay, and a team of seagulls treated it like an all-you-can-steal buffet.

I tried to skip a stone across the bay, but it sank on jump one, just like my math grades.

Our boat in the bay rocked gently, like it was trying to rock me to sleep but I was too busy being seasick.

A boy and his dog walk to a bay. The boy sees sea come into the bay and sit close to land on three sides. A small boat rocks in the bay. The dog runs on the sand by the bay and barks at the boat. The boy smiles; the bay feels quiet and safe.

This word is at the A2 level, which means it’s useful for simple, everyday situations. You might use it when shopping, traveling, or talking about your hobbies. Words at this level help you build confidence in practical, routine conversations.

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