ocean

/ˈoʊʃən/

/ˈʌʊʃən/

Other forms: oceans

You know that vast, wet expanse of blue that keeps crashing waves on the beach? That's the ocean.

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian...these are just a few of the big oceans of the world. If Columbus hadn't sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred ninety-two, America would have never been discovered. Home to sharks, mermaids, sailboats, and tsunami waves, the ocean makes up most of the planet Earth. But you can use ocean to describe anything similarly vast and limitless, like an endless ocean of fans at a rock concert.

Definitions of ocean

1. noun

   a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
   examples:

   Antarctic Ocean

   the southern waters surrounding Antarctica

   Arctic Ocean

   ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs

   Atlantic Ocean

   the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

   Indian Ocean

   the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south

   Pacific Ocean

   the largest ocean in the world

   types:

   deep

   literary term for an ocean

   type of:

   body of water, water

   the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
2. noun

   anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
   synonyms: sea

   type of:

   large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

   an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude