Thesaurus: sea

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1. n. One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
2. n. An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small water">fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
3. n. The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
4. n. The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
5. n. A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
6. n. Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.
7. n. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
8. n. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
9. n. turbulent water with swells of considerable size
10. A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so calledfrom its size.He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round incompass, and five cubits the height thereof. 2 Chron. iv. 2.
11. n:100 n. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land n. turbulent water with swells of considerable size