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say it: oh-shee-AN-ik
oceanic is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean". It carries 4 recorded senses.
relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean
“oceanic islands like Bermuda”
“oceanic currents”
“oceanic birds”
“pelagic organisms”
“pelagic whaling”
resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree
“the oceanic violence of his rage”
an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oceanic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.