OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Ocean -- U.S. County in New Jersey
Population (2000): 510916
Housing Units (2000): 248711
Land area (2000): 636.276111 sq. miles (1647.947493 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 279.602257 sq. miles (724.166491 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 915.878368 sq. miles (2372.113984 sq. km)
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 39.918818 N, 74.210903 W
Headwords: Ocean Ocean, NJ Ocean County Ocean County, NJ

Source: U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
 

Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), n. [F. oc['e]an, 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. [1913 Webster]

Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3. An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

You're gonna need an ocean Of calamine lotion. --Lieber & Stoller (Poison Ivy: song lyrics, 1994) [PJC]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Ocean \O"cean\ ([=o]"shan), a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "ocean": abundance, acres, bags, barrels, blue, brine, briny, bushel, copiousness, countlessness, deep, drink, flood, gobs, high seas, load, loads, lots, main, mass, mountain, much, multitude, numerousness, oceans, oodles, peck, plenitude, plenty, plethora, profusion, quantities, quantity, scads, sea, spate, superabundance, superfluity, the briny, the deep, the depths, tons, volume, world, worlds

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

ocean

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Ocean \O"cean\, n. [F. oc['e]an, L. oceanus, Gr.? 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Ocean \O"cean\, a. Of or pertaining to the main or great sea; as, the ocean waves; an ocean stream. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)