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Definition of menai strait in English English dictionary
- A channel separating Anglesey from mainland Wales
- Channel of the Irish Sea separating the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland of northern Wales. It extends 15 mi (24 km) and varies in width from 600 ft (180 m) to 2 mi (3 km). Two famous bridges span the strait: Thomas Telford's suspension road bridge of 1827 and Robert Stephenson's Britannia tubular railway bridge of 1849
- a strait in northern Wales between Anglesey Island and the mainland
- Menai Straits
- the Menai Straits a narrow area of sea in North Wales, between the Welsh coast and the island of Anglesey