English > sea: 3 senses > noun 1, object| Meaning | A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land. |
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| Instances | Adriatic, Adriatic Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west |
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| Aegean, Aegean Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey |
| Arabian Sea | A northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia |
| 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 |
| Baffin Bay | A body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada |
| Baltic, Baltic Sea | A sea in northern Europe |
| Barents Sea | The part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia |
| Beaufort Sea | Part of the Arctic Ocean to the northeast of Alaska |
| Bering Sea | Part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia |
| Bismarck Sea | An arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago |
| Black Sea, Euxine Sea | A sea between Europe and Asia |
| Caribbean, Caribbean Sea | An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America |
| Chukchi Sea | Part of the Arctic Ocean just to the north of the Bering Strait |
| Coral Sea | An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia |
| East China Sea | Part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia |
| Greenland Sea | Part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland |
| Hudson Bay | An inland sea in northern Canada |
| Inland Sea | An arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan |
| Ionian Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy |
| Irish Sea | An arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland |
| Kara Sea | Part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea |
| Labrador Sea | An arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland |
| Laptev Sea | Part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year |
| Ligurian Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica |
| Marmara, Sea of Marmara, Marmara Denizi, Marmora, Sea of Marmora | An inland sea in northwestern Turkey |
| Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea | The largest inland sea |
| North Sea | An arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia |
| Norwegian Sea | The part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea |
| Red Sea | A long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia |
| Ross Sea | An arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica |
| Sargasso Sea | A vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed |
| 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 |
| Tasman Sea | An arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand |
| Timor Sea | An arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia |
| Tyrrhenian Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily |
| Weddell Sea | An arm of the south Atlantic in Antarctica to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula |
| Yellow Sea, Huang Hai | Part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia |
| Part of | hydrosphere | The watery layer of the earth's surface |
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| Parts | bay, embayment | An indentation of a shoreline larger / larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf |
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| gulf | An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land |
| inlet, recess | An arm off of a larger / larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) |
| Narrower | South Sea | Any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific) |
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| Broader | body of water, water | The part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) |
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| Spanish | mares, mar, océano |
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| Catalan | mar, oceà |
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| Adjectives | marine | of or relating to the sea |
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| pelagic | relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean |
| thalassic | relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas |
