Word Meanings - OCEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: OCEAN

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OCEAN)

• Sea
• Ocean
• deep
• main

Related words: (words related to OCEAN)

• OCEAN
  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
• OCEANUS
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• OCEANOLOGY
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• OCEANOGRAPHY
  A description of the ocean.
• OCEANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. 2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
• INTEROCEANIC
  Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.