01 n. 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.
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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. Also: sea, great sea“Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years.” — Longfellow.
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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.
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An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.“You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion.” — Lieber & Stoller (Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994)