inlet - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" Bristol Channel - an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England fiord, fjord - a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land loch - a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) sea - a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land White Sea - a large inlet of the Barents Sea in the northwestern part of European Russia Zuider Zee - a former inlet of the North Sea in the northern coast of the Netherlands; sealed off from the sea in 1932 by a dam that created the IJsselmeer |