English Channel - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and BritainBattle of the Spanish Armada - in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England Channel Islands - a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east channel - a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel" Solent, the Solent - a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight |