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ocean
/ˈoʊ.ʃən/
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What does ocean mean?
noun
- One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- Water belonging to an ocean.
- (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
proper noun
- A female given name from English, of modern usage.
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
- A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
- The deity Oceanus.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈoʊ.ʃən/
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“Yes, the ocean has indeed circulation, and to promote it, the Creator has caused things to multiply in it—caloric, salt, and animalculae.”
The smoke vanished, the vast silence closed upon the passing echoes of the rifle as the ocean closes upon a ship's wake.
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The ocean was, after all, very large, and when one took one’s plunge one seemed to have it quite to one’s self.
Down through the startled ocean A mighty vessel came, Not white, as all dead ships must be, But red, like living flame!
Picture the sky both dark and wild, and the clouds, in fearful sympathy with the waves, making another ocean in the air.