sea-born

[ see-bawrn ]

adjective

1. born in or of the sea, as naiads.
2. produced in or rising from the sea, as reefs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sea-born¹

First recorded in 1585–95

Example Sentences

Thou shalt have Verginies pearls, my fair one, and look like a sea-born Venus; tiens!

From Project Gutenberg

This is one picture in the kaleidoscope of Aphrodite, who was a sea-born goddess, and partial to her native element.

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But the sea-born fog continued to come, looking as though it arrived in ever-increasing billows.

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His leviathans and huge worms and wrecks of ships rot on every shore and in his dunnest deeps amidst pearls and sea-born blooms.

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Your far-wingèd name And sea-born battle-skill shall go with us.

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