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Meaning of 'ocean' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ocean [ a.]
- Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream.
2 . Ocean [ n.]
- 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.
- 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.
- An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs.

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