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Ocean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

o'shun. Pertaining to the main or great sea; as the ocean wave; ocean stream.

Ocean [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. o'shun. [Latin oceanus; Gr.; Heb. to encompass, whence a circle. This is probably an error. The word seems to have for its origin greatness or extent.]

2. The vast body of water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe, called also the sea, or great sea. It is customary to speak of the ocean as if divided into three parts, the Atlantic ocean the Pacific ocean and the Indian ocean; but the ocean is one mass or body, partially separated by the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa on one side, and by America on the other.

3. An immense expanse; as the boundless ocean of eternity; oceans of duration and space.

Ocean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.

Ocean [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea.

2. One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

Ocean Encyclopedia Britannica

OCEAN. See Sea.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 719
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Oceania Encyclopedia Britannica

OCEANIA. See Polynesia.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 719
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Oceanic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

oshean'ic. Pertaining to the ocean.

Oceanic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean.

2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.

Oceanography [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A description of the ocean.

Oceanology [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

Oceanus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.