noun
a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt
• Syn: ↑Abukir Bay
• Part Holonyms: ↑Mediterranean, ↑Mediterranean Sea
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/ah'booh kear", ab'ooh-/, n.
a bay in N Egypt, between Alexandria and the Rosetta mouth of the Nile: French fleet defeated here by British fleet 1798.
Also, Aboukir.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.