ocean

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Water belonging to an ocean.

   The island is surrounded by ocean

2. 2
   noun

   An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.

   the boundless ocean of eternity

3. 3
   name

   A female given name from English, of modern usage.

   'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name.

4. 4
   name

   The deity Oceanus.

   But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.

5. 5
   noun

   a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

6. 6
   noun

   anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

7. 7
   noun

   One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

8. 8
   noun

   A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).

Etymology

From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”, a water deity). Displaced native Old English gārseċġ. Also commonly referred to as the ocean sea, the sea of ocean (compare Latin mare ōceanum; Old French mer oceane, occeanne mer). Compare Saterland Frisian Oceoan (“ocean”), West Frisian oseaan (“ocean”), Dutch oceaan (“ocean”), German Low German Ozeaan (“ocean”), German Ozean (“ocean”), Danish ocean (“ocean”), Swedish ocean (“ocean”),…