Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pacific ocean

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables: paci-fic o-cean
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.

Example Sentences

"The Santa Barbara oil spill has environmentalists and California officials scrambling as an estimated 105,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into the Pacific Ocean and onto the Golden State’s coast."
"In a Saturday news release, NORAD said the fighters were working to redirect the turboprop west, out over the Pacific Ocean, before it crashed on Ketron Island."

Etymology

cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.

Inflected Forms

the Pacific Ocean (canonical)

Synonyms

the Pacific

Questions

What does pacific ocean mean?: An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
Where does pacific ocean come from?: cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.

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