Ocean: Definition and part of speech

Ocean

  1. a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
  2. 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.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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