What is another word for Atlantic Ocean?

Pronunciation: [ɐtlˈantɪk ˈə͡ʊʃən] (IPA)

There are numerous synonyms for the Atlantic Ocean, which is the world's second-largest ocean. Some of the common ones include North Atlantic, South Atlantic, Atlantic sea, and Oceanus Atlanticus in Latin. Other alternatives include the Western Ocean, the Sargasso Sea, the Atlantic Basin, and the Mare Oceanum among others. The vast body of water covers an area of approximately 41 million square miles, borders Europe, Africa, North, and South America. In addition to providing a major trade route for ships and harboring several islands, it is also home to various marine species such as humpback whales, sea turtles, and dolphins.

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What are the hypernyms for Atlantic ocean?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Atlantic ocean

  • Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
    Herbert Croly
  • Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
    Kenneth Koch
  • You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
    Cyndi Lauper
  • Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    H. L. Mencken
  • As I sit at my desk, I know where I am. I see before me a window; beyond that some trees; beyond that the red roofs of the campus of Stanford University; beyond them the trees and the roof tops which mark the town of Palo Alto; beyond them the bare golden hills of the Hamilton Range... beyond that other mountains, range upon range, until we come to the Rockies; beyond that the Great Plains and the Mississippi; beyond that the Alleghenies; beyond that the eastern seaboard; beyond that the Atlantic Ocean; beyond that is Europe; beyond that is Asia. I know, furthermore, that if I go far enough I will come back to where I am now. In other words, I have a picture of the earth as round. I visualize it as a globe. I am a little hazy on some of the details... I probably could not draw a very good map of Indonesia, but I have a fair idea where everything is located on the face of this globe. Looking further, I visualize the globe as a small speck circling around a bright star which is the sun, in the company of many other similar specks, the planets. Looking still further, I see our star the sun as a member of millions upon millions of others in the Galaxy. Looking still further, I visualize the Galaxy as one of millions upon millions of others in the universe.
    Kenneth Boulding

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