ocean

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

English

A map, with the Indian Ocean in dark blue

Etymology

From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Oceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity).

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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.ʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊʃən
• Hyphenation: o‧cean

Noun

ocean (countable and uncountable, plural oceans)

1. (countable) One of the 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.

   the boundless ocean of eternity

   an ocean of affairs

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from ocean

• Antarctic Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Austral Ocean
• boil the ocean
• drop in the ocean
• German Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Ocean County

• ocean current
• ocean dumping
• ocean-going
• Oceania
• oceanic
• oceanisation
• ocean liner

• oceanographer
• oceanography
• ocean sunfish
• Oceanus
• Pacific Ocean
• Southern Ocean
• South Polar Ocean

Related terms

• a drop in the ocean
• ocean tramp

Translations

one of the large bodies of water

• Afrikaans: oseaan
• Albanian: oqean (sq) m, ujanë f, kërnalle (sq) f
• Amharic: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳyanos)
• Antillean Creole: granlanmè
• Arabic: مُحِيط‏‎ (ar) m (muḥīṭ), قَامُوس‏‎ (ar) m (qāmūs)
• Aragonese: ocián m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣ‏‎ m (’ōqeyanōs)

• Armenian: օվկիանոս (hy) (ōvkianos)
• Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: মহাসাগৰ (môhāȟāgôr)
• Asturian: océanu m
• Azeri: okean (az)
• Bashkir: океан (okean)
• Basque: ozeano
• Belarusian: акія́н m (akiján)
• Bengali: সমুদ্র (bn) (sômudr), মহাসমুদ্র (bn) (môhasmudr)
• Bislama: dipsi
• Bulgarian: океа́н m (okeán)
• Burmese: အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa), သမုဒ္ဒရာ (my) (sa.mudda.ra)
• Buryat: далай (dalaj)
• Catalan: oceà (ca) m
• Chechen: океан (okean)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大洋 (zh) (dàyáng), 海洋 (zh) (hǎiyáng), 洋 (zh) (yáng)

• Crimean Tatar: okean
• Czech: oceán (cs) m
• Danish: ocean (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކަނޑު‏‎ (kanaḍu)
• Dutch: oceaan (nl) m, wereldzee (nl) f
• Eastern Bontoc: fiayfiay
• Esperanto: oceano (eo)
• Estonian: ookean (et)
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Extremaduran: océanu m
• Faroese: hav n
• Fijian: wasa (fj)
• Finnish: valtameri (fi)
• French: océan (fr) m
• Galician: océano m
• Georgian: ოკეანე (oḳeane)
• German: Weltmeer (de) n, Ozean (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὠκεανός m (ōkeanós)

  Modern Greek: ωκεανός (el) m (okeanós)

• Greenlandic: imaq
• Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) (samudra)
• Haitian Creole: oseyan
• Hausa: tḕku f
• Hawaiian: moana
• Hebrew: אוקיינוס \ אוֹקְיָנוֹס‏‎ (he) m (oqyanós), יָם‏‎ (he) m (yam)
• Hindi: महासागर (hi) m (mahāsāgar), समन्दर (hi) m (samandar), समुन्दर (hi) m (samundar), अम्बुधि (hi) (ambudhi), सागर (hi) m (sāgar)
• Hungarian: óceán (hu)
• Icelandic: haf (is) n, sjór (is) m, ægir (is) m (poetic), úthaf (is) n
• Ido: oceano (io)
• Igbo: osimiri
• Ilocano: baybay
• Indonesian: samudra (id), lautan (id)
• Interlingua: oceano
• Interlingue: ocean
• Iranun: kaludan
• Irish: aigéan m, oician m (early form), bóchna f, farraige (ga) f, an fharraige mhòr f, lear m, mórmhuir f
• Italian: oceano (it) m
• Japanese: 大洋 (たいよう, taiyō), 海洋 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō), 海 (ja) (うみ, umi)
• Kalmyk: дала (dala)
• Kannada: ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಮಹಾಸಾಗರ (mahāsāgara)
• Karakalpak: okean
• Kazakh: мұхит (kk) (muxït)
• Khmer: មហាសមុទ្រ (mɔhaa sa’mot)
• Korean: 대양 (ko) (daeyang) (大洋 (ko)), 바다 (ko) (bada)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: okyanûs (ku)

• Kyrgyz: океан (ky) (okean)
• Lao: ມະຫາສະໝຸດ (lo) (ma hā sa mut)
• Latin: oceanus m
• Latvian: okeāns (lv)
• Lithuanian: okeanas m, vandenynas (lt) m
• Lojban: braxamsi
• Luganda: enyanjja, enenne
• Luiseño: móomat
• Macedonian: океа́н m (okeán)
• Malagasy: oseana (mg)
• Malay: lautan, samudera, segara
• Malayalam: സമുദ്രം (ml) (samudraṃ), സാഗരം (ml) (sāgaraṃ)

• Maltese: oċean m
• Manx: faarkey m
• Maori: moana (mi), moana pīpipi, moana waiwai, moana tuauriuri
• Marathi: महासागर (mahāsāgar)
• Mirandese: ouceano m
• Mongolian: далай (mn) (dalaj)
• Navajo: tónteel
• Nepali: महासागर (ne) (mahāsāgara)
• Norman: ochéan m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: verdenshav n

  Nynorsk: verdshav n

• Occitan: ocean (oc) m
• Old English: holm, ġeofon n, gārsecg m
• Oriya: ମହାସାଗର (mahāsāgar)
• Pashto: سمندر‏‎ (ps) (samandar)
• Persian: اقیانوس‏‎ (fa) (oqyânus)
• Polish: ocean (pl) m
• Portuguese: oceano (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮਹਾਂਸਾਗਰ (mahānsāgar)
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Rohingya: cáigor
• Romanian: ocean (ro) n
• Russian: океа́н (ru) m (okeán)
• Rusyn: океа́н m (okeán)
• Rwanda-Rundi: inyanja class 9/10 (Rwanda), iki-yaga (Rundi)
• Samoan: vasa
• Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa) m (samudra)
• Sardinian: mari
• Scottish Gaelic: aigeann m, cuan m, cuan mòr m, fairge f, an fhairge mhòr f, muir f, tàbh m
• Serbo-Croatian: ocean (sh) m

  Cyrillic: океан m

  Roman: okean (sh) m

• Shan: ပၢင်ႇလၢႆႇ (paang2 laaj2)
• Sicilian: ucèanu (scn) m
• Sindhi: ساگر‏‎ (sd) m (sâgaru)
• Sinhalese: සාගරය (si) (sāgaraya)
• Slovak: oceán m
• Slovene: ocean (sl) m
• Somali: badweyn f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: ocean m

• Southern Kalinga: fayfay
• Spanish: océano (es) m
• Sundanese: jaladri (su)
• Swahili: bahari (sw)
• Swedish: ocean (sv)
• Tagalog: karagatan
• Tajik: уқёнус (tg) (uqyonus)
• Tamil: கடல் (ta) (kaṭal)
• Tatar: океан (oqean)
• Telugu: మహా సముద్రం (mahā samudraṃ)
• Tetum: tasi
• Thai: มหาสมุทร (th) (má-hǎa-sà-mùt)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)
• Tigrinya: ውቅያኖስ (wəḳyanos)
• Tlingit: éil'
• Tok Pisin: solwara
• Tongan: 'oseni
• Tupinambá: paranã
• Turkish: okyanus (tr)
• Turkmen: okean, de–iz
• Tuwali Ifugao: baybay
• Udmurt: океан (okean)
• Ukrainian: океа́н (uk) m (okeán)
• Urdu: بحر‏‎ (ur) (bahr), محیط‏‎ (muhiyet), سمندر‏‎ (samandar), ساگر‏‎ m (sāgar)
• Uyghur: ئوكيان‏‎ (okyan)
• Uzbek: okean (uz), muhit (uz)
• Venda: please add this translation if you can
• Venetian: oçeano m
• Vietnamese: đại dương (vi) (大洋)
• Volapük: sean (vo)
• Võro: suurmeri
• Walloon: oceyan (wa)
• Welsh: cefnfor (cy) m, eigion m
• West Coast Bajau: selang
• Wolof: mbàmbulaan (wo)
• Xhosa: ulwandlekazi
• Yakut: океан (okean)
• Yiddish: ים‏‎ m (yam), אָקעאַן‏‎ m (okean)
• Yoruba: òkun
• Yup'ik: imarpik
• Zhuang: haijyangz
• Zulu: ulwandle class 11/10

water from an ocean

• French: océan (fr) m
• Haitian Creole: oseyan
• Norman: ochéan m

• Romanian: ocean (ro) n
• Tok Pisin: solwara

immense expanse

• French: océan (fr) m
• Norman: ochéan m

• Romanian: ocean (ro) n

See also

• sea

Anagrams

• canoe

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔˈt͡sɛ.an/

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Noun

ocean m inan

1. ocean

Declension

declension of ocean

	singular	plural
nominative	ocean	oceany
genitive	oceanu	oceanów
dative	oceanowi	oceanom
accusative	ocean	oceany
instrumental	oceanem	oceanami
locative	oceanie	oceanach
vocative	oceanie	oceany

Derived terms

• oceaniczny
• oceanografia

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• okèān (Serbia, Bosnia)

Etymology

From Latin Oceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /otsěaːn/
• Hyphenation: o‧ce‧an

Noun

ocèān m (Cyrillic spelling оцѐа̄н)

1. (Croatia) ocean

Declension

Declension of ocean

	singular	plural
nominative	ocèān	oceani
genitive	oceána	oceana
dative	oceanu	oceanima
accusative	ocean	oceane
vocative	oceane	oceani
locative	oceanu	oceanima
instrumental	oceanom	oceanima