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sea¹

  • /siː/
  • /seɪ/ obsolete

Sounds like C, cee, see · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English see, from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, itself either:

* Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”). Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore.

* Derived from Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-.

Cognates

Cognate with Yola zea, zee (“sea”), North Frisian See, sia, siie (“sea; lake”), Saterland Frisian See, Säi (“sea”), West Frisian see (“sea”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno sea (“lake”), Dutch zee (“sea”), German and German Low German See (“sea”), Limburgish Sië, zieë (“sea, ocean; lake”), Luxembourgish Séi (“lake”), West Flemish zji (“sea; seaside”), Danish sø (“sea; lake”), Faroese sjógvur (“sea; big wave”), Icelandic sjár, sjór, sær (“sea”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sjø (“sea, ocean; lake”), Swedish sjö (“sea; lake; big wave”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws, “lake, sea; marshland”).

noun seas

  1. A large body of salt water. God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.
  2. The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface. These ſhal ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatſoeuer hath finnes and ſcales in the waters, in the ſeas, and in the riuers, them ſhall ye eate.
  3. A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea. The Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Sea of Crete, etc.
  4. A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish. The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Salton Sea, etc.
  5. A single wave; billow. One ſea broke away the ſpare yards and ſpars out of the ſtarboard main chains. Another heavy ſea broke into the ſhip and ſtove all the boats. Several caſks of beer, that had been laſhed upon deck, were broke looſe and waſhed overboard, and it was not without great difficulty and riſk that we were ab
  6. The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough. “Where can they be?” he cried. “They cannot have gone down, for there has been no sea, and they were afloat after the yacht sank—I saw them all.”
  7. attributive, in compounds Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea. Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
  8. figuratively Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity. To be, or not to be, that is the queſtion, / Whether tis nobler in the minde to ſuffer / The ſlings and arrowes of outragious fortune, / Or to take Armes againſt a ſea of troubles, / And by oppoſing, end them, to die to ſleepe / No more, and by a ſleepe, to ſay we end / The hart-ake, and the thouſan
  9. A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
  10. A large, dark plain of rock; a mare. The Apollo 11 mission landed in the Sea of Tranquility.
  11. A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.

SEA²

  • /siː/ Philippines
  • /ˈsea/ Philippines

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Seattle.Seattle
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Southeast Asia.Southeast Asia
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Single European Act.Single European Act

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment.Strategic Environmental Assessment

Sea³

proper noun Seas

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).

Sea⁴

proper noun the Sea

  1. Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.

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