midocean
English
Alternative forms
- mid-ocean
Noun
midocean (uncountable)
- The area in the middle of an ocean, far from shore
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVII, page 28:
- So may whatever tempest mars
Mid-ocean, spare thee, sacred bark;
And balmy drops in summer dark
Slide from the bosom of the stars.
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