ocean

Other forms of ocean

plural

oceans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ocean

What does ocean mean?

ocean means "a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ocean?

ocean has 2 syllables: o-cean. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊʃən/.

What is another word for ocean?

Close synonyms include sea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ocean a common word?

ocean is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ocean?

1 word rhymes with ocean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.