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ocean-going

ocean-going is the alternative form of oceangoing.

Meaning of oceangoing

Adjective

oceangoing (not comparable)

  1. Travelling out to sea.
    • an oceangoing seal
    Synonyms:
    seafaring, seagoing
  2. Designed and equipped for use on ocean voyages.
  3. (informal) Utter; total.
    • […] an ocean-going bastard he was, too.2006, The Spectator, volume 301, page 38

Questions about ocean-going

What is ocean-going the alternative form of?
Ocean-going is the alternative form of oceangoing.

Words near ocean-going in the dictionary

  1. ocean tramp
  2. ocean tramps
  3. Ocean Vista
  4. ocean world
  5. ocean worlds
  6. ocean-going
  7. ocean-lore
  8. ocean-nymph
  9. ocean-nymphs
  10. Oceana
  11. Oceana County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ocean-going (page history and authors); oceangoing (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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