ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.ʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: oceans
Etymology: From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”), French océan (“ocean”), Italian oceano (“ocean”). Doublet of Oceanus/Okeanos.
Senses: glosses: One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
examples: text: The island is surrounded by ocean
glosses: Water belonging to an ocean.
examples: text: the boundless ocean of eternity
text: an ocean of difference
text: 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!’
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: 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
ref: 1959, “Poison Ivy”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (lyrics), performed by The Coasters:
glosses: An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
glosses: A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
Synonyms: topics: navy
military
war
government
politics
nautical
transport
sense: large body of water
word: the ogin
Hyponyms: Antarctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Austral Ocean
German Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
South Polar Ocean
Derived terms: a drop in the ocean
blue-ocean
boil the ocean
brown ocean effect
calm blue ocean
drop in the ocean
exo-ocean
hycean
hyperoceanic
interocean
it's not the size of the ship, it's the motion of the ocean
midocean
mid-ocean ridge
motion of someone's ocean
nonocean
ocean acidification
oceanarium
oceanaut
oceanbed
ocean blue
Ocean County
ocean current
ocean dandruff
ocean depths
ocean dumping
ocean engineering
ocean eyes
ocean floor
oceanfront
oceanful
ocean-going
oceangoing
Oceania
oceanic
Ocean Island
oceanite
oceanization
oceanize
oceanless
oceanlike
ocean liner
ocean lore
ocean-lore
oceanographer
oceanography
oceanology
oceanophyte
ocean perch
ocean planet
ocean pout
ocean quahog
ocean ranching
Ocean Sea
oceanside
Oceanside
ocean station vessel
ocean sunfish
ocean tramp
Oceanus
oceanview
oceanward
oceanwards
oceanwater
oceanway
oceanwide
oceanwise
ocean world
oceanworthy
paleo-ocean
Panthalassan Ocean
Panthalassic Ocean
piss in the ocean
primordial ocean
spit in the ocean
superocean
transocean
ur-ocean
why is the ocean near the shore
World Ocean
Related terms: lake
sea