Indian Ocean
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- proper noun
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océano Índico
- Another perfect day dawns on the beaches of the Indian Ocean.
- Indian Ocean tsunami
- Indian Ocean region
- Indian Ocean coast
It's like over the Indian Ocean going to Australia.
- It's like over the Indian Ocean going to Australia.
- We must also remember back to a time several years ago when there was a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that destroyed many a life.
- It's funny how that works, but it wasn't look the the typical bureaucratic approach was ships chasing pirates all over the Indian Ocean.
- And so I'm walking and the sun is setting and I'm walking along the Indian Ocean, and I'm looking at the flowers and I get to this little village.
- And I'm out here on the banks of the Indian Ocean, not far from the Tasmanian Sea and South of the Timor and Banda Seas.
- 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.
- It's called the Indian Ocean Geoit low AK the gravity hole, and lots of theories have been put forward for it.
Examples
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I want to be en route to the Indian Ocean within the hour.
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Mauritius is a tiny, formerly volcanic island located in the Indian Ocean, about 500 miles east of Madagascar.
Academic text (1994) -
We finally got out of the terrific heat of the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean.
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Second, the presence of the Chinese Navy is growing in the Indian Ocean.
Academic text (1997) -
I have 400 beds stranded somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
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This is the truck that took us 1,200 miles along the virgin coastline of the Indian Ocean.
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Seychelles is at the center of the Indian Ocean tuna fisheries.
Academic text (1990) -
The major earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, causing widespread alerts across coastal regions.
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As we sailed across the Indian Ocean, we marveled at the vast expanse of water surrounding us.
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The beautiful beaches along the Indian Ocean attract tourists from all over the world.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'Indian' (pertaining to India) + 'ocean' (a large sea) yields the ocean associated with India. Naming bodies of water after nearby countries/regions is a common, cross-linguistic convention, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reliably infer the referent and general location.
Etymology
Indian Ocean: The name Indian Ocean comes from India and the word ocean — for many years sailors and traders used the warm waters near India, so people called it the 'sea of India'. That's why today Indian Ocean means the ocean next to India and nearby lands.