Western Ocean

American  

noun

Nautical.

1. the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Western Ocean British  

noun

1. (formerly) another name for Atlantic Ocean

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Example Sentences

To linger over Captain John Smith’s 1607-1608 map of the Chesapeake, for instance, is to put you in his boat as he sailed up the Potomac looking for a waterway to the Western Ocean, as if seeing the places he records for the first time.

From Washington Post

Nonetheless, MacDonald said his paper is a warning that “we simply cannot take off the table the possibility that the eastern Pacific will cool relative” to western ocean waters “and we’ll have La Niña-like conditions exacerbating aridity in California.”

From Los Angeles Times

A gold ingot on view is stamped with the words, “Purchased from the Western ocean and other places”.

From Economist

The combination of constant rains and an overflowing lake that fed into the Pasig River, a tidal estuary swollen well beyond flood crest, was made worse as the high tide pushed in more water from the western ocean bay.

From New York Times

The combination of almost two weeks of constant rains and an overflowing lake that fed into the Pasig River, a tidal estuary swollen well beyond flood crest, was made worse as the high tide pushed in more water from the western ocean bay.

From Reuters