Definition of sea
Nouns
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
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Adriatic Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west
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Aegean Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
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Arabian Sea
a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia
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Arafura Sea
a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
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Baffin Bay
a body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter
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Baltic Sea
a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy
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Barents Sea
the part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia
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Beaufort Sea
part of the Arctic Ocean to the northeast of Alaska
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Bering Sea
part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait
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Bismarck Sea
an arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago
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Euxine Sea
a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
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Caribbean Sea
an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream
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Chukchi Sea
part of the Arctic Ocean just to the north of the Bering Strait
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Coral Sea
an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
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East China Sea
part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
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Greenland Sea
part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland
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Hudson Bay
an inland sea in northern Canada
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Inland Sea
an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima
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Ionian Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
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Irish Sea
an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
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Kara Sea
part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year
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Labrador Sea
an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland
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Laptev Sea
part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year
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Ligurian Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica
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Marmara Denizi
an inland sea in northwestern Turkey; linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus and linked to the Aegean by the Dardanelles
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Mediterranean Sea
the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
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North Sea
an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970
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Norwegian Sea
the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea
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Red Sea
a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
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Ross Sea
an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica
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Sargasso Sea
a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed
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Sea of Japan
an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan
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Sea of Okhotsk
an arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia
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South China Sea
a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
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Tasman Sea
an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand
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Timor Sea
an arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia
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Tyrrhenian Sea
an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily
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Weddell Sea
an arm of the south Atlantic in Antarctica to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula
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Yellow Sea
part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia
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South Sea
any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)
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body of water, water
the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
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- ocean
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large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
turbulent water with swells of considerable size
"heavy seas"
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head sea
a sea in which the waves are running directly against the course of the ship
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turbulent flow
flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically
Vocabulary Lists for sea
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island »(2273 words)
Vocabulary study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson's...
- seamanly
- squire
- rum
- stockade
- clove hitch
- Albert
- antique
- archduke
- arid
- back
- acrid
- acute
- affix
- air
- ala
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales - Beginning »(773 words)
Vocabulary words from The Canterbury Tales, from...
- Theseus
- narcotise
- citole
- drey
- girasol
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels - Chapters 1-4 »(415 words)
A very interesting vocabulary list from Gulliver's...
- scimitar
- lilliputian
- observe
- middle finger
- metropolis
- acrid
- affix
- amorist
- amour
- artificer
Words that contain sea
able-bodied seaman
able seaman
ad nauseam
Addison's disease
Adriatic Sea
Advanced Research and Development Activity
Aegean Sea
Air Force Research Laboratory
air search radar
Alaska fur seal
Albers-Schonberg disease
Albright's disease
Alcea rosea
alpine hulsea
Althea rosea
Alzheimer's disease
Andaman Sea
Anglesea
Anglesea Island
animal disease

