Reverse Dictionary: OCEAN

ADJECTIVES
► ABYSSAL of unsearchable depth, unfathomable; belonging to the lowest depths of ocean → 1691
► AEQUOREAL ► EQUOREAL marine, oceanic→ 1647 rare, chiefly poetic usage
► OCEANINE belonging to the ocean or main sea → 1656 obs.
► OCEANOUS pertaining to the ocean → 1730 obs.
► ON THE NOSE of ocean water: polluted → 1991 Aust. sl.
► SUBOCEANIC beneath the ocean → 1858

ADVERBS
► OCEANWAYS by way of the ocean → a1649

NOUNS
► BIG BROOK, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG DITCH, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG DRINK, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG LAKE, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG MAMA, THE the ocean → 1991 US sl.
► BIG POND, THE the sea, the ocean → 1840 chiefly humorous usage
► BIG POOL, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG PUDDLE, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG WATER, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BRINE the sea or ocean → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BRINY, THE the ocean, the sea → 1865 colloq.
► CUPBOARD, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DAVY JONES’S LOCKER the ocean, esp. as the grave of all who perish at sea → US Civil War usage
► DEEP, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DITCH, THE the ocean → M19 sl.
► DRINK any large body of water, an ocean, lake, etc. → 1914 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► FROG POND the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GREAT BASIN, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GREAT POND, THE the sea, the ocean → 1612 chiefly humorous usage
► GREAT LAKE, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HERRING-POND the sea or ocean, esp. the North Atlantic ocean → 1686 humorous usage
► MAIN the high sea, the open ocean → 1579, now poetic usage
► MAIN FLOOD high water; a large or full-flowing body of water; the ocean or ‘main sea’, the high sea → c1303 obs.
► MILL POND the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MOANA the ocean → 1972 Hawaii
► NEPTUNE the sea or ocean → c1385
► OCEANET a small ocean → 1681 obs.
► OCEANOGRAPHY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena → 1883
► OCEANOLOGY the study of the ocean, its form, physical features, and phenomena → 1864
► OGGIN the ocean → 2003 Antarctica usage
► OLD SALTY the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POND, THE the sea, the ocean → 1780 chiefly humorous usage
► POOL the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUDDLE, THE the Atlantic Ocean; the ocean → c1880 colloq.
► SALT CHUCK the ocean → 1868 Amer. dial.
► SALT POND the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WATER, THE the ocean → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► OCEANOGRAPHER one who studies or is versed in oceanography (see nouns) → 1886