Atlantic Ocean
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- proper noun
- /əˈtlæntɪk ˈoʊʃən/
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Océano Atlántico
- The sea, especially the Atlantic Ocean, was unlike anything he had known before.
- North Atlantic Ocean
- western Atlantic Ocean
Her father had been found dead, floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having gone overboard on his yacht.
- Her father had been found dead, floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having gone overboard on his yacht.
- The meeting takes place in an oceanfront condominium overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Florida.
- A blue whale singing off the Grand Banks of Canada can be heard all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.
- It would be like me saying, Oh, the pond in my back garden is the closest body of water to everybody in the vicinity except for the Atlantic Ocean.
- It's it's an island in the middle of North Atlantic Ocean.
- He told the gardeners, when I'm writing, don't walk across the garden, which is my view of the Atlantic Ocean because you'll break the trance I have in flow state.
- You've been well as you try to be caught out in the Atlantic Ocean, you've had to get rescued countless occasions, been rescued twice, once in the Indian Ocean.
Examples
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We were about 10 hours into it, out over the Atlantic Ocean as the sun began to rise.
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At its outlet, in the Hampton Roads-Norfolk area of Virginia, the bay meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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But here, the Atlantic Ocean is in our way.
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No sense in being worried in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, right?
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On one side of the peninsula is the Atlantic Ocean.
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I've never seen the Atlantic Ocean before.
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Students learn that the Atlantic Ocean and other oceans have directly influenced exploration.
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Moreover, Morocco offered access to both the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
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One hundred years ago this month, the Titanic struck an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and sank within hours.
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I've just flown across the Atlantic Ocean and the view from the window was breathtaking.
Synonyms
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One of the world's largest oceans between the Americas and Europe and Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward proper-name composition: 'ocean' gives the category (a large body of salt water) and 'Atlantic' specifies which one. The combined meaning — a particular ocean lying between the Americas and Europe/Africa — is directly inferable from the constituents and follows common cross-linguistic naming patterns.
Etymology
The name Atlantic Ocean comes from an old Greek story about the giant Atlas. People called the sea near his land the 'Sea of Atlas', and that name stayed, so the big ocean between the Americas and Europe/Africa is now called the Atlantic Ocean.