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ocean

Noun masculine CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈəʊ.ʃən

Definitions

  1. One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
  2. A female given name from English, of modern usage.
  3. sea
  4. Water belonging to an ocean.
  5. The great sheet of salt water surrounding the Earth’s landmasses; also its subdivision into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans.
  6. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
  7. seaside
  8. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
  9. The entire body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface.
  10. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
  11. lunar mare
  12. A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
  13. Abbr. Oc. or O. Any of the principal divisions of the ocean, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans.
  14. The deity Oceanus.
  15. loads
  16. A great expanse or amount: "that ocean of land which is Russia" (Henry A. Kissinger).
  17. really; hella
  18. (Physical Geography) a very large stretch of sea, esp one of the five oceans of the world, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic
  19. (Physical Geography) the body of salt water covering approximately 70 per cent of the earth's surface
  20. a huge quantity or expanse: an ocean of replies.
  21. literary the sea
  22. the vast body of salt water that covers almost three-fourths of the earth's surface.
  23. any of the geographical divisions of this body, commonly given as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans.

Equivalents

Españolmarocéano
Françaisocéan
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پښتوسمندر
Portuguêsoceano
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Examples

The island is surrounded by ocean
the boundless ocean of eternity
“an ocean of difference
“On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora’s flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, ‘Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!’”
Poison Ivy, Lord,'ll make you itch You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion You'll be scratchin' like a hound The minute you start to mess around
“'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name.”
But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.”

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