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Definition of Coral sea
1. Noun. An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia.
Group relationships: Pacific, Pacific Ocean
Generic synonyms: Sea
2. Noun. A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers.
Generic synonyms: Naval Battle
Group relationships: Second World War, World War 2, World War Ii
Definition of Coral sea
1. Proper noun. A marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean off the north-east coast of Australia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coral Sea
Literary usage of Coral sea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"The coral sea embraces that portion of the Pacific Ocean extending from the south
of New Guinea, westward to the coast of Australia, southward to New ..."
2. Australian Byways: The Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler by Norman Duncan (1915)
"... XXXVIII ACROSS THE coral sea WE went out from Cairns, Papua bound, across the
coral sea, in the starlit dark of two o'clock in the morning; ..."
3. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"Where was the bulk of the land when the coral sea stretched round the tropics?
It could only have been to the extreme north and south. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"Where was the bulk of the land when the coral sea stretched round the tropics ?
It could only have been to the extreme north and south. ..."
5. Elementary Geography (1880)
"Going east from the coral sea, name in order six groups of islands that you reach.
In what zones does Australia lie ? In what zone is Tasmania ? ..."
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