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ur-ocean

ur-ocean noun: a primordial ocean.

Noun

ur-ocean (plural ur-oceans)

  1. A primordial ocean.
    • This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space
  2. Panthalassa.

Forms of ur-ocean

pluralur-oceans

Origin of ur-ocean

Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- + ocean.

Questions about ur-ocean

What does ur-ocean mean?
Ur-ocean means a primordial ocean.
What part of speech is ur-ocean?
Ur-ocean is a noun.
What is the plural of ur-ocean?
The plural of ur-ocean is ur-oceans.

Words near ur-ocean in the dictionary

  1. ur-languages
  2. ur-mind
  3. ur-minds
  4. ur-myth
  5. ur-myths
  6. ur-ocean
  7. ur-oceans
  8. ur-poem
  9. ur-poems
  10. ur-race
  11. ur-races

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