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Meaning of ur-ocean | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A primordial ocean.
  2. Panthalassa.

Examples

“This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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