About The Word Ocean
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Ocean
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What's The Definition Of Ocean?
[n] a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
[n] anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume Synonyms | Synonyms for Ocean: sea Related Terms | Find terms related to Ocean: abundance | acres | bags | barrels | blue | brine | briny | bushel | copiousness | countlessness | deep | drink | flood | gobs | high seas | load | loads | lots | main | mass | mountain | much | multitude | numerousness | oceans | oodles | peck | plenitude | plenty | plethora | profusion | quantities | quantity | scads | sea | spate | superabundance | superfluity | the briny | the deep | the depths | tons | volume | world | worlds See Also | Antarctic Ocean | Arctic Ocean | Atlantic | Atlantic Ocean | body of water | deep | hydrosphere | Indian Ocean | large indefinite amount | large indefinite quantity | Pacific | Pacific Ocean | water Ocean In Webster's Dictionary \O"cean\, n. [F. oc['e]an, L. oceanus, Gr.? ocean, in
Homer, the great river supposed to encompass the earth.]
1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three
fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the
{sea}, or {great sea}.
Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the
thought of other years. --Longfellow.
2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great
ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific,
Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without
apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an
ocean of affairs. --Locke.
\O"cean\, a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. --Milton. |
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