south sea

1. 1.

   any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)

   Broadersea

Questions about south sea

What does south sea mean?

south sea means "any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)".

Is south sea a common word?

south sea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.