ocean
Syllables: o·ceanUK/ˈəʊ.ʃən//ˈoʊ.ʃən/
ocean noun: one of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
Noun
ocean (countable and uncountable, plural oceans)
- One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- Synonyms:
- the ogin
- Water belonging to an ocean.
- The island is surrounded by ocean
- An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
- the boundless ocean of eternity
- an ocean of difference
- A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
Proper noun capitalized: Ocean
Ocean
- A female given name from English, of modern usage.
- 'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name.2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
- A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
- The deity Oceanus.
- But he must ever watch the northern Bear,
Who from her frozen height with jealous eye
Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south,
And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150
- But he must ever watch the northern Bear,
ocean meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ocean in Hindi
- one of the large bodies of water
- सागर sāgar, महासागर mahāsāgar, समुद्र samudra, महासमुद्र mahāsmudra, समन्दर samandar, समुन्दर samundar
ocean in Tamil
- one of the large bodies of water
- பெருங்கடல் peruṅkaṭal, ஆழி āḻi
ocean in Marathi
- one of the large bodies of water
- महासागर mahāsāgar
ocean in Urdu
- one of the large bodies of water
- بَحْر bahr, مُحِیط muhīt, سَمَنْدَر samandar, سَمُنْدَر samundar, ساگَر sāgar, قامُوس qāmūs
More languagesFewer languages
- ocean in Bengali
- সমুদ্র śomudro, মহাসমুদ্র mohaśomudro
- ocean in Telugu
- మహా సముద్రం mahā samudraṁ
- ocean in Malayalam
- സമുദ്രം samudraṁ, സാഗരം sāgaraṁ
- ocean in Kannada
- ಸಮುದ್ರ samudra, ಮಹಾಸಾಗರ mahāsāgara
- ocean in Punjabi
- ਮਹਾਂਸਾਗਰ mahānsāgar
- ocean in Gujarati
- સમુદ્ર samudra
- ocean in Odia
- ମହାସାଗର mahāsāgara
- ocean in Sanskrit
- समुद्र samudra, धीर dhīra
- ocean in Sinhala
- සාගරය sāgaraya
- ocean in Assamese
- মহাসাগৰ mohaxagor
- ocean in Nepali
- महासागर mahāsāgar
- ocean in Pashto
- سمندر samandar
- ocean in Tagalog
- karagatan
- ocean in Arabic
- مُحِيط muḥīṭ, قَامُوس qāmūs
- ocean in Malay
- lautan, samudera, segara
- ocean in Indonesian
- samudra, lautan
- ocean in Thai
- มหาสมุทร má-hǎa-sà-mùt
- ocean in Vietnamese
- đại dương
- ocean in Myanmar
- အဏ္ဏဝါ anna.wa, သမုဒ္ဒရာ sa.mudda.ra
- Sindhi
- ساگر sâgaru
- Dhivehi
- ކަނޑު kaⁿḍu
- Dzongkha
- རྒྱ་མཚོ rgya mtsho
Examples of ocean in a sentence
- Charles Lindbergh flew his airplane The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic ocean.
- Deep beneath the ocean, the Titanic was lost to the world.
- The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.
Synonyms of ocean
- the ogin
Forms of ocean
| plural | oceans |
|---|
Origin of ocean
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.
From ocean (“sea”), inspired by the fashionable French female name Océane.
Words formed from ocean
- a drop in the ocean
- blue-ocean
- boil the ocean
- brown ocean effect
- calm blue ocean
- Canfield 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 Bluff
- Ocean County
- ocean current
- ocean dandruff
- ocean depths
- ocean dumping
- ocean engineering
- ocean eyes
- ocean floor
- oceanfront
- oceanful
- oceangoing
- ocean-going
- Ocean Grove
- Oceania
- oceanic
- Ocean Island
- oceanite
- oceanization
- oceanize
- oceanless
- oceanlike
- ocean liner
- ocean lore
- ocean-lore
- ocean-nymph
- oceanographer
- oceanography
- oceanology
- oceanophyte
- ocean perch
- ocean planet
- ocean pout
- ocean quahog
- ocean ranching
- Ocean Ridge
- Ocean Sea
- Oceanside
- ocean station vessel
Phrases with ocean
- Ocean City
- Ocean Park
- open ocean
- Great Ocean
- ocean blues
- ocean pouts
- Ocean State
- ocean tramp
- Ocean Vista
- ocean world
- World Ocean
- Arctic Ocean
44 more phrasesFewer phrases
- German Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Middle Ocean
- ocean floors
- Ocean Grange
- ocean liners
- Ocean Shores
- Ocean Stater
- ocean tramps
- ocean worlds
- Austral Ocean
- ocean perches
- ocean planets
- ocean quahogs
- ocean sunfish
- Pacific Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- ocean currents
- ocean dumpings
- Southern Ocean
- Antarctic Ocean
- boils the ocean
- Ocean of Storms
- ocean sunfishes
- boiled the ocean
- Deucaledon Ocean
- primordial ocean
- boiling the ocean
- piss in the ocean
- South Polar Ocean
- South-Polar Ocean
- spit in the ocean
- drops in the ocean
- Panthalassan Ocean
- Panthalassic Ocean
- Southern Icy Ocean
- Great Southern Ocean
- North Atlantic Ocean
- ocean station vessels
- Indian Ocean humpback dolphin
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Indian Ocean humpback dolphins
- why is the ocean near the shore
- Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water
Words that rhyme with ocean
Questions about ocean
- What does ocean mean?
- Ocean means one of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- What is ocean in Hindi?
- Ocean in Hindi is सागर (sāgar), महासागर (mahāsāgar), समुद्र (samudra). See Ocean meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ocean?
- Ocean can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ocean?
- Ocean is pronounced /ˈəʊ.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ocean?
- The plural of ocean is oceans.
Words near ocean in the dictionary
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