From Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan, from Old French occean (later reborrowed or reinforced by Middle French ocean), from Latin Ōceanus, originally from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός.

• (British) IPA: /ˈəʊ.ʃən/
• (America) IPA: /ˈoʊ.ʃən/

ocean

1. (countable) One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.
2. (uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.

   The island is surrounded by ocean

3. (figuratively) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits.

   the boundless ocean of eternity

   an ocean of difference

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC ↗:

     On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora’s flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, ‘Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!’

4. A blue colour, like that of the ocean (also called ocean blue).

    

• (large body of water) the ogin (UK)

• French: océan
• German: Weltmeer, Ozean
• Italian: oceano
• Portuguese: oceano
• Russian: океа́н
• Spanish: océano

• French: océan

• French: océan

From ocean ("sea"), inspired by the fashionable French female name Océane.

1. A female given name.
2. A twp in Monmouth County, New Jersey, which originally extended to the ocean.
3. A twp in Ocean County, New Jersey.