ocean

plural oceans

1. countableOne of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

   Synonyms: the ogin

2. countableuncountableThe continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.

   Synonyms: sea

3. uncountableWater belonging to an ocean.

   The island is surrounded by ocean

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

   an ocean of difference

   3 more examples

   the boundless ocean of eternity

   On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora’s flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, ‘Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!’

   1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

   Poison Ivy, Lord,'ll make you itch You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion You'll be scratchin' like a hound The minute you start to mess around

   1959, “Poison Ivy”, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (lyrics), performed by The Coasters

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

1. 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.

   2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25

2. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
3. A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
4. human sciencesThe 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.

   1869, Matthew Arnold, Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1885, page 150