océan
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Ōceanus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.se.ɑ̃/
Audio (France) (file) - Homophone: océans
Noun
océan m (plural océans)
- (countable) an ocean (one of the large bodies of water separating the continents)
- Coordinate term: mer
- (uncountable, with the definite article) the ocean (the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface)
- Synonym: mer
- (figuratively) ocean (immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limit)
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