Western Ocean


nounNautical.
  1. the North Atlantic Ocean.

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How to use Western Ocean in a sentence

  • Columbus had hoped to establish a communication between our quarter of the world and India across the great Western Ocean.

  • The influence of the Western Ocean is very strongly marked, the temperature falling steadily from west to east.

  • Such indeed seem to have been the origin of the belief in that mysterious island OBrasil, lying far out in the Western Ocean.

    Irish Witchcraft and Demonology | St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour
  • Tamralipta and Kalinga on the eastern ocean wave, Pattan's port whose hardy children Western Ocean's dangers brave!

    Maha-bharata | Anonymous
  • Its capital was Tzintzuntzan, and its fullest limit touched the waters of the Western Ocean.

    Mexico | Susan Hale

British Dictionary definitions for Western Ocean

Western Ocean

noun
  1. (formerly) another name for Atlantic Ocean

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