a very large body of salty water that covers much of Earth’s surface
From the cliff, we watched the sun sink into the ocean at dusk.
Whales travel thousands of miles across the ocean each year.
✦ From Middle English occean, borrowed from Old French occean, from Latin Ōceanus, from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ôkeanós), the personified world-encircling river in Greek mythology.
a very large amount of something, used figuratively
There was an ocean of paperwork waiting on my desk after vacation.
The stadium erupted into an ocean of cheering fans waving flags.
