Ocean

See also: ocean, océan, oceán, óceán, and oċean

English

Etymology

From ocean (“sea”), inspired by the fashionable French female name Océane.

Proper noun

Ocean

1. A female given name from English, of modern usage.
   • 2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25:

     'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name.

2. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
3. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
4. (mythology) The deity Oceanus.
   • 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,
     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.

Anagrams

• acone, canoe

German

Noun

Ocean m (strong, genitive Oceanes or Oceans, plural Oceane)

1. Obsolete spelling of Ozean which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
   • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] [Human, All Too Human]‎^[1], section 616:

     Es hat grosse Vortheile, seiner Zeit sich einmal in stärkerem Maasse zu entfremden und gleichsam von ihrem Ufer zurück in den Ocean der vergangenen Weltbetrachtungen getrieben zu werden.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Ocean [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ocean	die	Oceane
genitive	eines	des	Oceanes, Oceans	der	Oceane
dative	einem	dem	Ocean, Oceane1	den	Oceanen
accusative	einen	den	Ocean	die	Oceane

¹Now rare, see notes.