ur-ocean

noun

A primordial ocean.

OriginGerman Urozean →
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Meanings

nounur-ocean (plural ur-oceans)

plural ur-oceans

  1. A primordial ocean.

    This ur-ocean, however, to him is not one more god among others, as is Hesiod's and Homer's “deeply vortexed Okeanos”; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs, by condensation and evaporation.

    2009, Henning Genz, Nothingness: The Science Of Empty Space
  2. Panthalassa.

Origin

  1. GermanUrozean
  2. Englishur-ocean

Borrowed from German Urozean, equivalent to ur- + ocean.

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APA

ur-ocean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ur-ocean

MLA

“ur-ocean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ur-ocean. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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