Ocean
English
Proper noun
Ocean
- A female given name from English, of modern usage.
- 2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 25:
- 'Ocean still isn't sleeping through the night.' I don't blame her. She's probably traumatised by her ridiculous name.
- A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, which originally extended to the ocean.
- A township in Ocean County, New Jersey.
German
Noun
Ocean m (strong, genitive Oceanes or Oceans, plural Oceane)
- Obsolete spelling of Ozean which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
- 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] , section 616:
- Es hat grosse Vortheile, seiner Zeit sich einmal in stärkerem Maasse zu entfremden und gleichsam von ihrem Ufer zurück in den Ocean der vergangenen Weltbetrachtungen getrieben zu werden.
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