Definition of Atlantic ocean

1. Noun. The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east.


Definition of Atlantic ocean

1. Proper noun. The ocean lying between the Americas to the west and Europe and Africa to the east. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atlantic Ocean

Atkins diet
Atkinson
Atlalanti
Atlanta
Atlantan
Atlantans
Atlantean
Atlanteans
Atlantian
Atlantians
Atlantic
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic City
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic Isles
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time
Atlantic bonito
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Atlantic cod
Atlantic croaker
Atlantic halibut
Atlantic herring
Atlantic herrings
Atlantic manta
Atlantic moonfish
Atlantic pollock
Atlantic pollocks
Atlantic pomfret

Literary usage of Atlantic ocean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"On the Temperature obtained in the atlantic ocean during the Cruise of HMS ' Challenger. ... atlantic ocean ..."

2. The Right of the United States of America to the North-eastern Boundary by Albert Gallatin (1840)
"The term " atlantic ocean" how far contradistinguished from the Bay of Fundy, and from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The principal objection, on the part of ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"It would now be of great importance to renew these experiments at different seasons. Met-.orological Observatories in the atlantic ocean. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"ATLANTIC CITY, a city of Atlantic county, New Jersey, USA, on the atlantic ocean, 58 m. ... atlantic ocean, a belt of water, roughly of an S-shape, ..."

5. Monthly Weather Review by American Meteorological Society, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States. Weather Bureau (1889)
"The paths of the depressions that appeared over the north atlantic ocean during December, 1889, are shown on chart i. These paths have been determined from ..."

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