| 单词 | the great sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe great sea a. A part of the general body of salt water, having certain land-limits or washing a particular coast, and having a proper name, as the Red, Black, Irish, Adriatic Sea. †the great sea: the Mediterranean. the Severn Sea (archaic): the Bristol Channel. †Formerly sometimes in plural, as the Red, Irish, Indian Seas; cf. narrow seas n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > a sea seac825 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Mediterranean Sea the great sea1382 sea of middle eartha1387 South Seaa1398 Mediterrany?a1475 Mediterranean Sea?1556 mid-earth sea1559 Midland Sea1579 Mediterrane1582 Mediterranean1621 middle-land sea1650 Great Lake1857 Mare Nostrum1921 Med?1942 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > Bristol Channel North SeaeOE the Severn Sea1577 c825 Vesp. Psalter cxxxv. 13 Se todaelde ðone readan sae. c1290 St. Michael 636 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 317 Ech oþur se among us here, ne beo heo so gret non, Nis bote a lime of þulke se. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xxxiv. 6 The west plage forsothe shal begynne fro the greet see. [So 1611 and 1884 ( Revised).] 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 362 To passe over the grete See To werre and sle the Sarazin. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 100 To the Turk sey all land did his name dreid. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. i. i. f. 1/1 Pharo..quhais son..wes drownit..wt all his army in ye reid seis. 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) v The Beare, that in the Iryshe seas had dipt His griesly feete. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 241/1 in Chron. I The Danes..comming into the Seuerne sea. 1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 20 When as they [sc. herrings] come into Yermouth Seas yearely about S. Luke, and sometimes before. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 43 The Riuer Indus, which their ingulfes herselfe into the Indian Seas. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 193 Mare, the sea, is a part of the ocean, to which we cannot come but through some strait. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 61 We sailed over a Sea call'd the Plaet, which is an exceeding dangerous Water. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 578/2 Any part of the ocean marked off from the general mass of water may be called a sea. In geography the name is loosely applied: for instance, the Arabian Sea is an open bay, Hudson's Bay is an enclosed sea. < as lemmas |
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