English > Pacific Ocean: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | The largest ocean in the world. |
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| Synonym | Pacific |
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| Instance of | ocean | A large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere |
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| Parts | Aleutian Islands, Aleutians | An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwest from Alaska |
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| Antarctic Ocean | The southern waters surrounding Antarctica |
| Arafura Sea | A part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia |
| Australasia | Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands in the South Pacific |
| Austronesia | islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia) |
| Bering Sea | Part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia |
| Coral Sea | An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia |
| East China Sea | Part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia |
| Guadalupe Island | A Mexican island in the Pacific to the west of Baja California |
| Gulf of Alaska | A gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago |
| Gulf of Tehuantepec | An arm of the Pacific in southern Mexico |
| Inland Sea | An arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan |
| Japan, Japanese Islands, Japanese Archipelago | A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean |
| Malay Archipelago, East Indies, East India | A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia |
| New Guinea | A Pacific island to the north of Australia |
| New Zealand, New Zealand Islands | North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific |
| North Pacific | That part of the Pacific Ocean to the north of the equator |
| Oceania, Oceanica | A large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago) |
| Osaka Bay | A bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu |
| Pacific Coast | A coast of the Pacific Ocean |
| Palau, Palau Islands, Belau, Pelew | A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean |
| Philippines, Philippine Islands | An archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands |
| Puget Sound | An inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State |
| San Diego Bay | A bay of the Pacific in southern California |
| San Francisco Bay | A bay of the Pacific in western California |
| Santa Catalina, Catalina Island | An island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California |
| Sea of Japan, East Sea | An arm of the Pacific between China and Japan |
| Sea of Okhotsk | An arm of the Pacific to the east of Asia |
| South China Sea | A tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons |
| South Pacific | That part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator |
| Tasman Sea | An arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand |
| Volcano Islands | A group of Japanese Islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the Marianas |
| Wake Island, Wake | An island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii |
| Yellow Sea, Huang Hai | Part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia |
| Region of | Iwo, Iwo Jima, invasion of Iwo | A bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945) |
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| Philippine Sea, battle of the Philippine Sea | A naval battle in World War II (1944) |
| Spanish | Océano Pacífico, Pacífico |
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| Catalan | Oceà Pacífic, Pacífic |
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