ocean
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ocean/ˈəʊʃn/
▶noun a very large expanse of sea, in particular, each of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans.
■ (the ocean) N. Amer. the sea.
– derivatives
oceanward adverb & adjective,
oceanwards adverb.
oceanward adverb & adjective,
oceanwards adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. occean, via L. from Gk ōkeanos ‘great stream encircling the earth's disc’.
'ocean' also found in these Oxford entries:
abyssal
- Atlantic
- bigeye
- blackfish
- blue riband
- carbon sink
- cobia
- Dalai Lama
- Date Line
- doldrums
- drift ice
- drop
- dugong
- epicontinental
- floor
- gyre
- haaf
- high seas
- Indo-Pacific
- infauna
- main
- Mauritian
- mid-Atlantic
- mid-ocean ridge
- oarfish
- oceanarium
- Oceanian
- oceanic
- pacific
- photic
- pond
- roaring
- seabed
- Seychellois
- solitaire
- tidal wave
- transoceanic
- transpontine
- trench
- twilight zone
- walrus
