sea

Plural: seas

Noun

• The expanse of salt water covering most of Earth's surface.
• a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
• turbulent water with swells of considerable size
  • "heavy seas"
• A large body of salt water.
• A large body of salt water.
• The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
• 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.
• A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
• A single wave; billow.
• The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
• Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
• Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
• A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
• A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
• A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Examples

• Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
• The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
• The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
• The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
• With a single move, he opened up the SEA of possibilities for a bingo on the board.

Synonyms

ocean, ogin

Related Words

Sea-Tac, ocean