ocean
/ˈoʊ.ʃən/ noun B1- One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- The continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- Water belonging to an ocean. · The island is surrounded by ocean
- An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits. · the boundless ocean of eternity· an ocean of difference
- A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).
Plural oceans
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He was the first to jump on shore; and had he dared, he would, like Lucius Brutus, have “kissed his mother earth.” It was dark, but at eleven o’clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, “ascending high,” played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.
The patron of La Jeune Amélie proposed as a place of landing the Island of Monte Cristo, which being completely deserted, and having neither soldiers nor revenue officers, seemed to have been placed in the midst of the ocean since the time of the heathen Olympus by Mercury, the god of merchants and robbers, classes of mankind which we in modern times have separated if not made distinct, but which antiquity appears to have included in the same category.
Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf-worn rocks or little sandy coves inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels; beyond lay the sea, shimmering and blue, and over it soared the gulls, their pinions flashing silvery in the sunlight.
The gloomy building rose from the bosom of the ocean with imposing majesty and seemed to dominate the scene.
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