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conception bay

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English

Syllables
con-cep-tion bay
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A bay on the south-east coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

name

A bay on the coast of Namibia.

Etymology

In Newfoundland, adapted from Portuguese Baia da Conceição. The name of the Namibian bay may be from the same source, although in German colonial days it was Empfängnisbucht; the Afrikaans name is Conceptionbaai.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Conception Bay South

Questions

What does conception bay mean?
A bay on the south-east coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Where does conception bay come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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