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noun

A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.

Usage examples:

The atlantic ocean
adjective

(of a ship, boat, etc.) designed for travelling across large areas of ocean

Usage examples:

An ocean-going vessel
noun

A very large area ...

noun

A large seawater aquarium in which marine animals are kept for study and public entertainment.

Usage examples:

Dolly the dolphin, the much loved senior resident of the bayworld oceanarium, is pregnant again.
adjective

Like or characteristic of an ocean; provided with an ocean or oceans.

noun

The land that borders an ocean.

Usage examples:

This music kind of reminds us of the oceanfront - those soothing sounds of being on the water's edge.
noun

As much as an ocean contains; hyperbolically, a large quantity.

adjective

(of a ship) designed to cross oceans.

Usage examples:

Seven major rivers cross suriname, many partly navigable by large ocean-going ships.
proper noun

An area that encompasses the islands of the pacific ocean and adjacent seas.

noun

The region of the world that consists of the islands of the pacific ocean and the seas around them

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the islands of oceania or their inhabitants.

Usage examples:

The cool, shadowy oceanian landscape
noun

A native or inhabitant of the islands of oceania.

Usage examples:

The oceanians who progressively peopled the pacific islands over ten centuries
adjective

Relating to the ocean.

Usage examples:

Oceanic atolls
noun

The extent to which a particular climate is oceanic; the state of being or having an oceanic climate.

noun

A sea nymph.

Usage examples:

Each painting features a dazzlingly nubile phoebus apollo surrounded by a throng of oceanides, trit…
noun

Oceanic character; specifically (of climate) = oceanicity .

noun

The scientific study of the oceans and seas and the organisms that live in them

adverb

As regards oceanography.

noun

The branch of science that deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the sea.

Usage examples:

Both students are in the biological oceanography curricular group at scripps.
noun

Another term for oceanography.

noun

A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.

Usage examples:

The atlantic ocean
noun

A place or area of land by the sea.

Usage examples:

An oceanside resort
proper noun

The son of uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth), the personification of the great river believed to encircle the whole world.

adverb

Towards the ocean.

Usage examples:

The vessel drifted oceanward
adjective

Directed or moving towards the ocean.

Usage examples:

The oceanward side of the reef
adverb

Towards the ocean.

Usage examples:

The vessel drifted oceanward
adjective

Directed or moving towards the ocean.

Usage examples:

The oceanward side of the reef

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