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Definition of Seven seas
1. Noun. An informal expression for all of the oceans of the world. "The old salt had sailed the seven seas"
Definition of Seven seas
1. Noun. (informal) All of the oceans of the world. (North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seven Seas
Literary usage of Seven seas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"When we turn to the larger portion of' The seven seas/ how imaginative it is,
... The seven seas' is the most remarkable book of verse that Mr. Kipling has ..."
2. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"When we turn to the larger portion of * The seven seas/ how imaginative it is,
... The seven seas' is the most remarkable book of verse that Mr. Kipling has ..."
3. International Waterways: I. The Evolution of the Principle of International by Paul Morgan Ogilvie (1920)
"... IV DISCOVERY EXTENDS MARITIME ENTERPRISE THROUGHOUT THE seven seas The
unparalleled voyages of discovery during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, ..."
4. The Bookman (1897)
"fK The seven seas. By Kipling. §1.50. (Ap- X Quo Vadis. By Sienkiewicz. $2.00.
... Ж seven seas.* By Kipling. 75 cts. and $1.25 (Methuen & Co.) 6. ..."
5. Jason Edwards by Hamlin Garland (1897)
"When we turn to the larger portion of' The seven seas/ how imaginative it is,
... The seven seas' U the most remarkable book of verse that Mr. Kipling has ..."
6. The Annual Literary Index by William Isaac Fletcher, Richard Rogers Bowker (1900)
"I. — Religion of. (JT Sunderland) New Eng. M. ns 20: 6O4(J1). — " Rudyard," a
humorous poem on Kipling's verse. (WA Gorham) Midland, 11:223. — seven seas ..."
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