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deep sea

deep sea noun: the deeper part of the sea or ocean in which no light penetrates.

Noun

deep sea (countable and uncountable, plural deep seas)

  1. The deeper part of the sea or ocean in which no light penetrates.
  2. An open sea. (the part of the sea that is out of sight of land)
    • deep sea fishing

deep sea meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

deep sea in Tamil

deeper part of sea
ஆழ்கடல் āḻkaṭal

deep sea in Malayalam

deep sea
ആഴക്കടൽ āḻakkaṭal

deep sea in Kannada

ಕಡುಗಡಲು

Forms of deep sea

pluraldeep seas

Origin of deep sea

From Middle English depe see, equivalent to deep + sea.

Words formed from deep sea

Questions about deep sea

What does deep sea mean?
Deep sea means the deeper part of the sea or ocean in which no light penetrates.
What is deep sea in Tamil?
Deep sea in Tamil is ஆழ்கடல் (āḻkaṭal). See Deep sea meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is deep sea?
Deep sea is a noun.
What is the plural of deep sea?
The plural of deep sea is deep seas.

Words near deep sea in the dictionary

  1. deep point
  2. deep points
  3. deep rhetoric
  4. Deep River
  5. deep scattering layer
  6. deep sea
  7. deep seas
  8. deep six
  9. deep sixed
  10. deep sixes
  11. deep sixing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deep sea (page history and authors); ആഴക്കടൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); deep sea (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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