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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ocean has 2 senses
- ocean(n = noun.object) Array - a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere; Array has particulars: deep
- ocean(n = noun.quantity) sea - anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume; Array is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
is a kind of body of water, water
is a part of hydrosphere
Derived forms adjective oceanic3, adjective oceanic1
Derived form adjective oceanic2
CIDE DICTIONARY
ocean, n. [F. océan, L. oceanus, Gr. 'wkeano`s ocean, in Homer, the great river supposed to encompass the earth.].
- The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the
sea , orgreat sea . [1913 Webster]"Like the odor of brine from the ocean
Comes the thought of other years." [1913 Webster] - 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. [1913 Webster]
- An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. Locke. [1913 Webster]"You're gonna need an ocean
Of calamine lotion." [PJC]
ocean, a.
Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. Milton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ocean, n.
1 a a large expanse of sea, esp. each of the main areas called the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans. b these regarded cumulatively as the body of water surrounding the land of the globe.
2 (usu. prec. by the) the sea.
3 (often in pl.) a very large expanse or quantity of anything (oceans of time).
1 a a large expanse of sea, esp. each of the main areas called the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans. b these regarded cumulatively as the body of water surrounding the land of the globe.
2 (usu. prec. by the) the sea.
3 (often in pl.) a very large expanse or quantity of anything (oceans of time).
Idiom
ocean-going (of a ship) able to cross oceans. ocean tramp a merchant ship, esp. a steamer, running on no regular line or route.
Derivative
oceanward adv. (also -wards).
Etymology
ME f. OF occean f. L oceanus f. Gk okeanos stream encircling the earth's disc, Atlantic
DEVIL DICTIONARY
ocean
n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.THESAURUS
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, worldsROGET THESAURUS
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Ocean
N sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, vasty deep, wave, tide, hydrography, hydrographer, Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid, sea nymph, Siren, trident, dolphin, oceanic, marine, maritime, pelagic, pelagian, seagoing, hydrographic, bathybic, cotidal, at sea, on sea, afloat.
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