| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large body of water; large mass |
| Synonyms: | Davy Jones's locker, abundance, blue*, bounding main, brine, briny deep, briny, deep, drink*, expanse, lake, main, multitude, number, ocean, plethora, pond, profusion, sheet, splash*, surf, swell, waves |
| Antonyms: | land |
| Main Entry: | ocean |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large body of water |
| Synonyms: | Davy Jones's locker, Seven Seas, blue*, bounding main, brine, briny deep, briny, deep, drink*, high seas, main, pond, puddle, salt water, sea, seaway, sink, tide |
| Main Entry: | deep blue sea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the open ocean |
| Synonyms: | high seas, ocean, open sea, sea, the brine, the briny deep, the deep, the deep sea, the seven seas |
| Main Entry: | ocean |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abyssal, aequorial, autopelagic, bathyal, bathybic, benthic, benthopelagic, cisatlantic, cotidal, epeiric, euxine, grayslick, hadal, halimous, hydrographic, maricolous, marigenous, marine, oceanic, pelagic, pelagrian, seagoing, seasurrounded, spanipelagic, sublittoral, tidal, transmarine
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| Concept: | Multitude. |
| Category: | 3. Indeterminate Number |
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-nouns
multitude; numerous; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife., [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.
-verbs
be numerous; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.
-adjectives
many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore., thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless (infinite).
-phrases
their name is "legion"; acervatim; en foule; "many-headed multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]; vel
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| Antonyms: | fewness |
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| Concept: | Ocean |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; specific fluids |
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-nouns
sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave, tide, (water in motion) [more]., hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin.
-adjectives
oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing; hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal.
-adverbs
at sea, on sea; afloat.
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