ocean

Roget category 341

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.2. Inorganic matter
›› 3.2.2. Fluid matter

#341. Ocean

noun

sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, vasty deep —" wave, tide, etc. (water in motion) 348.
hydrography, hydrographer — Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid — sea nymph, Siren — trident, dolphin.

adjective

oceanic — marine, maritime — pelagic, pelagian — seagoing — hydrographic — bathybic^†, cotidal^†.

adverb

at sea, on sea — afloat.

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