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单词 over the sea
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over the sea
15. over sea (also over the sea).
a. Of motion: Across the sea, to the other side of the sea.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > over sea
over seaOE
oversea?a1475
overseas1583
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 894 (end) Ond þæt wæs ymb twelf monað Þæs þe hie ær hider ofer sæ comon.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1749 Ouer sea [c1300 Otho see] icomen hauene sone. anomen.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 25 He..ferde ouer the see, & conquerd Normundie.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 392 If I sent ouer see my seruantz to Bruges.
1458 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 300 Ther marchandys, the wyche they takyth ovre the se.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. D5v These [goods] they transport ouer seas, whereby they gaine infinit summes of mony.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 253 He fled ouer Seas into Denmarke.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in Poems (new ed.) II. 48 He..sick of home went overseas for change.
b. Of position: On the other side of the sea; abroad. Cf. oversea adj., overseas adv.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s)
beyond the seasc900
without1297
o brodea1400
on brodea1400
abroada1450
overseas1583
oversea1616
in foreigna1640
foreign1813
over sea1845
exterritorially1853
out foreign1895
1616 Sir G. Hay Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) vii. 146 If he be not found there [i.e. at Court], it is likely that he pretended Court, and meant over-sea.
a1626 N. Breton Toyes of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) 35 (title) A letter sent by a gentlewoman, in verse, to her husband, being ouer sea.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer i. 17 Great people over sea may write to our town's folks, because they have nothing else to do.
1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl II. v. 97 I wish the fingers of the sempstress over sea had been blistered ere they stitched that foul mantle.
1845 R. Browning Time's Revenges in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 1 I've a Friend, over the sea.
1886 Longman's Mag. Mar. 552 Our brethren of the pen over-seas.
1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine v. ii. 128 For in my father's kingdom oversea.
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