English word senses marked with place category "Oceans"
Parent categories: Seas, Bodies of water, Places, Ecosystems, Landforms, Water, Names, Ecology, Earth, Liquids, Biology, Nature, Matter, Sciences, Chemistry
Total 24 word senses
- Antarctic Ocean (Proper name) The Southern Ocean, particularly when understood as the waters south of the Antarctic Circle.
- Arctic Ocean (Proper name) The smallest of the five oceans of the Earth, on and around the North Pole, bordered by the three continents of Asia, Europe and North America.
- Arctic Sea (Proper name) The Arctic Ocean.
- Atlantic Ocean (Proper name) The ocean lying between the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east.
- Austral Ocean (Proper name) The Southern Ocean.
- Davy Jones (Proper name) The sea bed, bottom of the ocean.
- Davy Jones's locker (Proper name) The bottom of the ocean, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.
- Great Southern Ocean (Proper name) The Southern Ocean.
- Indian Ocean (Proper name) The ocean separating Africa, southern Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
- North Atlantic (Proper name) The portion of the Atlantic Ocean that lies primarily between North America and the northeast coast of South America to the east, and Europe and the northwest coast of Africa to the west.
- North Atlantic (Adjective) Pertaining to the North Atlantic Ocean or locations adjacent to it.
- North Atlantic Ocean (Proper name) The portion of the Atlantic Ocean that lies primarily between North America and the northeast coast of South America to the east, and Europe and the northwest coast of Africa to the west.
- Pacific (Proper name) A municipality of Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
- Pacific Ocean (Proper name) An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
- Panthalassa (Proper name) The prehistoric ocean surrounding Pangaea.
- South Atlantic (Proper name) The portion of the Atlantic Ocean which lies south of the equator.
- South Polar Ocean (Proper name) The Southern Ocean.
- South Sea (Proper name) A southern region of the Pacific Ocean that surrounds the archipelagoes of Polynesia and Melanesia.
- South-Polar Ocean (Proper name) Alternative form of South Polar Ocean.
- Southern Icy Ocean (Proper name) The Southern Ocean.
- Southern Ocean (Proper name) The portion of the World Ocean surrounding Antarctica, variously taken as the waters south of the Antarctic Circle, the waters south of 60° S, or the waters bounded by the Antarctic Convergence.
- ocean (Noun) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
- superocean (Noun) An ocean surrounding a supercontinent.
- ur-ocean (Noun) A primordial ocean.
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