oceangoing
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- adjective
- /ˈoʊʃənˌɡoʊɪŋ/
- Specialized
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- The oceangoing yacht sailed smoothly through the waves, showcasing its capability for ocean travel.
- oceangoing ship
- oceangoing vessel
Examples
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To launch this grand experiment, we will spend 10 days at the Little Bahama Bank on the Stenella, the 62-foot power catamaran Herzing uses as her oceangoing research base.
Blog text (11) -
An oceangoing ship of oak strakes might have been worth 720 silver shillings.
Fiction book (1998) -
And an oceangoing ship, too.
Fiction book (1996) -
The Faeroese harvest pilot whales but do not pursue the animals on oceangoing ships.
Academic text (1995) -
Moreover, over 65% of all oceangoing vessels traveling to and from the United States transit the Panama Canal.
Academic text (1993) -
They said there are no more unknown islands and that, even if there were, they weren't prepared to leave the comfort of their homes and the good life on board passenger ships just to get involved in some oceangoing adventure, looking for the impossible, as if we were still living in the days when the sea was dark.
Fiction book (1999) -
In 1839, Wagner and his first wife, Minna, boarded the oceangoing Thetis in Baltiysk, destination London.
Academic text (1998) -
Sometime between 200 B.C. and A.D. 600, their descendants successfully navigated their large oceangoing canoes even further east, to the Society Islands, the Marquesas, and eventually as far as Rapa Nui and Hawai'i.
Academic text (2003) -
The United States today funds a navy as large as the next 17 in the world combined, yet it has just one seaworthy oceangoing icebreaker—a vessel that was built more than a decade ago and that is not optimally configured for Arctic missions.
Academic text (2008) -
The oceangoing vessel was equipped with advanced navigation systems for long journeys across the sea.
Synonyms
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5.6
Fit for sailing safely at sea
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Connected with travel or work on the sea, often as a job
Made for travel on the open sea, like a ship
How Ocean-Going
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oceangoing is made from ocean ('large sea') and going ('able to go' or 'travel'), so imagine a boat that can go out on the big open water. Picture a ship built to travel far from shore and handle the wide sea. So, oceangoing means a vessel designed to travel on the ocean.