ocean floor

Questions about ocean floor

What does ocean floor mean?

ocean floor means "the bottom of a sea or ocean".

What is another word for ocean floor?

Close synonyms include sea floor, ocean bottom, seabed, sea bottom, Davy Jones's locker. 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 floor a common word?

ocean floor 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.