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 Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ.

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/

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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

   an ocean of difference

4. A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).

   ocean:  

Synonyms

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

Hyponyms

• Antarctic Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Austral Ocean
• German Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Southern Ocean
• South Polar Ocean

 

Derived terms

• a drop in the ocean
• boil the ocean
• drop in the ocean
• ocean blue
• Ocean County
• ocean current
• ocean dumping
• ocean floor
• ocean-going
• Oceania
• oceanic
• ocean-induced
• oceanisation
• ocean liner
• oceanographer
• oceanography
• ocean sunfish
• ocean tramp
• Oceanus

 

Translations

one of the large bodies of water

• Afrikaans: oseaan (af)
• 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:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣ‎ m (ʾōqêyānōs)

• Armenian: օվկիանոս (hy) (ōvkianos)
• Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: মহাসাগৰ (mohaxagor)
• Asturian: océanu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: okean (az)
• Bashkir: океан (okean)
• Basque: ozeano
• Belarusian: акія́н m (akiján)
• Bengali: সমুদ্র (bn) (śômudr), মহাসমুদ্র (bn) (môhaśmudr)
• Bislama: dipsi
• Brunei Malay: lautan
• Bulgarian: океа́н m (okeán)
• Burmese: အဏ္ဏဝါ (my) (anna.wa), သမုဒ္ဒရာ (my) (sa.mudda.ra)
• Buryat: далай (dalaj)
• Caló: pañibaró m
• Catalan: oceà (ca) m
• Chechen: океан (okean)
• Cherokee: ᎡᏉᏂ (equoni), ᎠᎺᏉᎯ (amequohi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 大洋 (daai⁶ joeng⁴, daai⁶ joeng^4-2)

  Dungan: ён (i͡on)

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

  Min Nan: 海洋 (zh-min-nan) (hái-iûⁿ / hái-iôⁿ)

  Wu: 洋 (hhian)

• Chukchi: майӈыаӈӄы (majṇyaṇqy)
• Crimean Tatar: okean
• Czech: oceán (cs) m
• Danish: ocean (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކަނޑު‎ (kaⁿḍu)
• Dutch: oceaan (nl) m, wereldzee (nl) f
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་མཚོ (rgya mtsho)
• Eastern Bontoc: fiayfiay
• Esperanto: oceano (eo)
• Estonian: ookean (et)
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Extremaduran: océanu m
• Farefare: ateko
• Faroese: hav (fo) n
• Fijian: wasa (fj)
• Finnish: valtameri (fi)
• French: océan (fr) m
• Galician: ouceán m, ouceao m, ouciao m, océano (gl) m
• Georgian: ოკეანე (oḳeane)
• German: Weltmeer (de) n, Ozean (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌿𐍃 m (lagus)
• Greek: ωκεανός (el) m (okeanós)

  Ancient: ὠκεανός m (ōkeanós)

• Greenlandic: imaq
• Gujarati: સમુદ્ર (gu) (samudra)
• Haitian Creole: oseyan
• Hausa: tḕku (ha) f
• Hawaiian: moana
• Hebrew: אוקיינוס \ אוֹקְיָנוֹס‎ (he) m (oqyanós), יָם‎ (he) m (yam)
• Hindi: सागर (hi) m (sāgar), महासागर (hi) m (mahāsāgar), समुद्र (hi) m (samudra), महासमुद्र (hi) m (mahāsmudra), समन्दर (hi) m (samandar), समुन्दर (hi) m (samundar), अम्बुधि (hi) (ambudhi), बहर (hi) m (bahar)
• 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
• 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 (ja) (たいよう, taiyō), 海洋 (ja) (かいよう, kaiyō), 海 (ja) (うみ, umi)
• Javanese: sagara (jv), saganten, samodra (jv)
• Kabuverdianu: mar, osianu
• Kalmyk: дала (dala)
• Kannada: ಸಮುದ್ರ (kn) (samudra), ಮಹಾಸಾಗರ (mahāsāgara)
• Kapampangan: kadayatmalatan, kedayatmalatan, karayatmalatan, kerayatmalatan
• Karakalpak: okean
• Kazakh: мұхит (kk) (muxït)
• Khmer: មហាសមុទ្រ (mĕəʼhaasaʼmot), សមុទ្រ (km) (saʼmot), សាគរ (km) (saakɔɔ)
• Korean: 대양 (ko) (daeyang) (大洋 (ko)), 바다 (ko) (bada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: okyanûs (ku)

• Kyrgyz: океан (ky) (okean)
• Lao: ມະຫາສະໝຸດ (lo) (ma hā sa mut)
• Latin: ōceanus m
• Latvian: okeāns (lv)
• Lithuanian: okeanas m, vandenynas (lt) m
• Luganda: enyanjja, enenne
• Luiseño: móomat
• Macedonian: океа́н m (okeán)
• Malagasy: oseana (mg), ranomasina (mg)
• Malay: lautan (ms), samudera, segara (ms)

• Malayalam: സമുദ്രം (ml) (samudraṃ), സാഗരം (ml) (sāgaraṃ)
• Maltese: oċean m
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᠮᡠ (namu)
• Manx: faarkey m
• Maori: moana (mi), moana pīpipi, moana waiwai, moana tuauriuri
• Maranao: kalodan, karodan
• Marathi: महासागर (mahāsāgar)
• Mirandese: ouceano m
• Mongolian: далай (mn) (dalai)
• Nahuatl: ilhuicaatl (nah)
• Navajo: tónteel
• Nepali: महासागर (ne) (mahāsāgar)
• Norman: ochéan m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: mearra, áhpi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: verdenshav n, osean n

  Nynorsk: verdshav n, osean n

• Occitan: ocean (oc) m
• Old English: gārseċġ m
• Oriya: ମହାସାଗର (môhasagôrô)
• Pali: samudda m
• Pashto: سمندر‎ (ps) (samandar)
• Persian: اقیانوس‎ (fa) (oqyânus), زراه‎ (fa) (zerāh, zarāh)
• Plautdietsch: Mäa n, Ozean m
• Polish: ocean (pl) m
• Portuguese: oceano (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮਹਾਂਸਾਗਰ (mahānsāgar)
• Quechua: mama qucha
• 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 9 or 10 (Rwanda), iki-yaga (Rundi)
• Samoan: vasa
• Sanskrit: समुद्र (sa) m (samudra), धीर (sa) m (dhīra)
• 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 (shn) (pàang làay)
• 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) c, världshav (sv) n
• 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'
• Tocharian A: sāmudtär
• Tocharian B: samudtär, lyam
• 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 (sâgar)
• 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 (zu) 11 or 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
• Kabuverdianu: mar
• Norman: ochéan m

• Northern Sami: áhpi
• Romanian: ocean (ro) n

See also

• sea
• lake

References

• Ocean on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acone, canoe

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ōceanus.

Noun

ocean m (plural oceans)

1. ocean

Related terms

• oceanic
• oceanografia

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 686.

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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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Romanian

Etymology

From French océan

Noun

ocean n (plural oceane)

1. ocean

Declension

Declension of ocean

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ocean	oceanul	(niște) oceane	oceanele
genitive/dative	(unui) ocean	oceanului	(unor) oceane	oceanelor
vocative	oceanule		oceanelor

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• okèān (Serbia, Bosnia)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ot͡sěaːn/
• 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

Related terms

• prekoocenaski