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ocean noun [ ˈəʊʃ(ə)n ]

• a very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
• "the Atlantic Ocean"
Similar: (the) sea, the drink, the briny, salt chuck, the deep, the waves, the main, the foam, the profound, moana,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French occean, via Latin from Greek ōkeanos ‘great stream encircling the earth's disc’. ‘The ocean’ originally denoted the whole body of water regarded as encompassing the earth's single land mass.


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