ocean
US: /ˈoʊʃən/
UK: /ˈəʊʃən/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
ocean /'ouʃn/- danh từ
- đại dương, biển
- (thông tục) vô vàn, vô khối, vô thiên lủng ((thường) oceans of)
- khoảng mênh mông (cỏ...)
- oceans of money: vô vàn tiền
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 (usually the ocean) [sing.] (especially AmE) the mass of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface: the depths of the ocean + People were swimming in the ocean despite the hurricane warning. + The plane hit the ocean several miles offshore. + Our beach house is just a couple of miles from the ocean. + an ocean liner / voyage + Ocean levels are rising.
2 (usually Ocean) [C] one of the five large areas that the ocean is divided into: the Antarctic / Arctic / Atlantic / Indian / Pacific Ocean - SEA
Idioms: an ocean of sth (BrE also oceans of sth) (informal) a large amount of sth: oceans of food
more at DROP n.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (deep blue) sea, (bounding) main, high seas, the deep, Davy Jones's locker, the depths, Colloq the briny, the drink:
The sails filled, and our tiny craft was swept out into the open ocean
2 Often, oceans. flood, abundance, multitude, profusion, plethora, Colloq scads, loads, tons, lots, oodles, gobs, zillions:
The direct mail campaign yielded oceans of responses.
Collocation
ADJ.
deep | vast | great
exploring the depths of the three great oceans
| open
A storm started up once we got out into the open ocean.
| tropical, warm | southern
penguins of the southern oceans
VERB + OCEAN
cross, sail | explore
OCEAN + NOUN
depths
the darkness of the ocean depths
| surface | bed, floor | basin | water | wave
a life on the ocean wave (= at sea)
| current | voyage | liner
PREP.
across the ~
trade across the Atlantic Ocean
| in the ~
Various toxic substances have been dumped in the ocean.
PHRASES
the bottom/depths/middle/surface of the ocean, the oceans of the world
great ships that sailed the oceans of the world
Concise dictionary
oceans'əʊʃnnoun
+a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
+anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
