mare liberum

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   (free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access

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Questions about mare liberum

What does mare liberum mean?

mare liberum means "(free sea) a navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access".

Is mare liberum a common word?

mare liberum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.