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Middle Ocean

Middle Ocean proper noun: the Mediterranean Sea.

Proper noun

Middle Ocean

  1. (dated) the Mediterranean Sea
    • Tremendous let her extend her name abroad to the extremest boundaries of the earth, where the middle ocean separates Europe from Africa, where the swollen Nile waters the plains; deriving more bravery from the contempt of gold yet undiscovered, and so best situated while hid in the earth, than from...1819, trans. Christopher Smart, Horace, The Works of Horace volume I, page 123
    • The Mediterranean, that Middle Ocean, whence proceeded westward all the wisdom of the ancients and the might of Rome and the mysteries of every creed, was the first of seas […]1916, H. Colburn, The United Service Magazine, volume 52, page 390

Words that rhyme with Middle Ocean

Questions about Middle Ocean

What does Middle Ocean mean?
Middle Ocean means the Mediterranean Sea.
What part of speech is Middle Ocean?
Middle Ocean is a proper noun.

Words near Middle Ocean in the dictionary

  1. middle names
  2. Middle Norse
  3. Middle Norwegian
  4. middle note
  5. middle notes
  6. Middle Ocean
  7. middle of bumfuck nowhere
  8. middle of nowhere
  9. middle of the market
  10. middle of the road
  11. middle office

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