ocean

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[edit] English

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A map, with the Indian Ocean in dark blue

[edit] Etymology

From Old French occean (later reborrowed from Middle French océan), from Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Okeanos, Oceanus, a water deity).

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ocean (plural oceans)

  1. (countable) One of the five large bodies of water separating the continents.
  2. (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
    The island is surrounded by ocean
  3. (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

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  • (large body of water): the ogin (UK, nautical and navy)

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ocean m.

  1. ocean

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From Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός.

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  • IPA: /otsěaːn/

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ocèān m. (Cyrillic spelling оцѐа̄н)

  1. ocean

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