Channel Meaning
/ˈt͡ʃænəl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
nounThe natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
Sentence Examples
The first man that succeed in swimming the Channel was Captain Webb.
Britain is separated from the Continent by the Channel.
I'd like to set it to the movie channel.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We had to switch to another ____ because the documentary was interrupted by static.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The English ____ separates the south of England from north France.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River."
— 2013 January 26, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
"Our citizens and our businesses on both sides of the channel need more security and predictability for the future"
— 2018 May 14, Jon Stone in Brussels, The Independent:
"But I write to tell you what you will hear through all the various channels by which news travels,..."
— 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 69–70:
"The veins are converging channels."
— 1859, John Call Dalton, A Treatise on Human Physiology:
"At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National Assembly such matter as may import that body to know."
— 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We had to switch to another ____ because the documentary was interrupted by static.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The English ____ separates the south of England from north France.