oceans
SayOH-shuhnzUS/ˈoʊ.ʃənz//ˈəʊ.ʃənz/
- 1Plural of ocean.
Rising temperatures are warming the oceans at an alarming rate.
Strong currents connect the world's oceans into a single circulating system.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that counts the great bodies of water separating the continents. When ocean names the water itself rather than a basin, it is uncountable, so that use has no plural. The figurative ocean, meaning any vast expanse or quantity, can be counted, and the plural appears there too, for amounts that seem to have no limit.
oceans is a form of ocean
ocean, noun: The vast body of salt water covering most of the earth, or one of the major areas into which it is divided. Full entry
- Forms
- oceanoceans plural
- Spelling
- ocean → oceans: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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