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sea

Pronunciation: /siː/

The English word “sea” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A large body of salt water.
  2. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
  3. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
  4. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
  5. A single wave; billow.
  6. The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
  7. Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
  8. Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
  9. A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
  10. A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
  11. A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

Etymology

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…

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