ocean

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ deep

▪ vast

▪ great

▪

a vessel which can explore the depths of the great oceans

▪ blue

▪ open

▪

A storm started up once we got out into the open ocean.

▪ calm, rough

▪ endless (literary)

▪

Before him lay the vast, endless ocean.

▪ cold, frozen

▪ tropical, warm

▪ southern

▪

penguins of the southern oceans

▪ coastal (AmE)

VERB + OCEAN

▪ cross, sail

▪ explore

▪ go in, swim in (both esp. AmE)

▪ overlook (esp. AmE)

▪

a beach house overlooking the ocean

OCEAN + NOUN

▪ depths

▪

the darkness of the ocean depths

▪ surface

▪ bed, bottom, floor

▪ basin

▪ water

▪ ecosystem

▪ wave

▪

a life on the ocean wave (= at sea)

▪ current, tides

▪ air, breeze (both esp. AmE)

▪ voyage

▪ liner

▪ view

▪ blue

PREPOSITION

▪ across the ocean

▪

trade across the Atlantic Ocean

▪ in the ocean

▪

Various toxic substances have been dumped in the ocean.

PHRASES

▪ the bottom of the ocean, the depths of the ocean, the middle of the ocean, the surface of the ocean

▪ the oceans of the world, the world's oceans

▪

great ships that sailed the oceans of the world