Sea

Quick meaning: Sea is a noun meaning A large body of salt water.

Meaning

A large body of salt water.

More Meanings

1. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
2. A single wave; billow.
3. The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
4. (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
5. (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
6. (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
7. (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.

Example Sentences

The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.

Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.

There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.

God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.

Word Forms

• seas

Synonyms for sea

Depending on context, synonyms include ogin, briny, ocean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ocean, oceanic, deep-sea, suboceanic, oceangoing, seagoing.

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