O"cean (ō"shan), a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea;
as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
Milton.
O"cean (ō"shan), n. [F. océan, L. oceanus, Gr.
'wkeano`s ocean, in Homer, the
great river supposed to encompass the earth.]
1.
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.
Like the odor of brine
from the ocean
Comes the thought of other years.
Longfellow. 2. 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.
3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.
Locke.
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