Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Abbreviation of Seattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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name
Initialism of Southeast Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Single European Act.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Mediterranean Sea
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noun
A large body of salt water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ogin, briny, mere
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noun
A large body of salt water.
The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ogin, briny, mere
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noun
A large body of salt water.
A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: ogin, briny, mere
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A single wave; billow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, in-compounds
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noun
Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences, planetology
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noun
A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences, planetology
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noun
Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
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noun
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: body of water, water
Narrower terms: South Sea, Adriatic, Adriatic Sea, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Arabian Sea, Arafura Sea, Baffin Bay, Baltic, Baltic Sea, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Bering Sea, Bismarck Sea, Black Sea, Euxine Sea, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Chukchi Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Inland Sea, Ionian Sea, Irish Sea, Kara Sea, Labrador Sea, Laptev Sea, Ligurian Sea, Marmara, Sea of Marmara, Marmara Denizi, Marmora, Sea of Marmora, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Red Sea, Ross Sea, Sargasso Sea, Sea of Japan, East Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Weddell Sea, Yellow Sea, Huang Hai
noun
turbulent water with swells of considerable size
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: turbulent flow
Narrower terms: head sea
noun
anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ocean
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
History
Inherited from Middle English see, from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, itself either: * Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sh2ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”). Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore. * Derived from Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykw-. Cognates Cognate with Yola zea, zee (“sea”), North Frisian See, sia, siie (“sea; lake”), Saterland Frisian See, Säi (“sea”), West Frisian see (“sea”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno sea (“lake”), Dutch zee (“sea”), German and German Low German See (“sea”), Limburgish Sië, zieë (“sea, ocean; lake”), Luxembourgish Séi (“lake”), West Flemish zji (“sea; seaside”), Danish sø (“sea; lake”), Faroese sjógvur (“sea; big wave”), Icelandic sjár, sjór, sær (“sea”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sjø (“sea, ocean; lake”), Swedish sjö (“sea; lake; big wave”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws, “lake, sea; marshland”).
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