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atlantic
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[ noun ] (geography) the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
Synonyms Used in print (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)On the third voyage , a near mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew_members on the Half_Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in mid Atlantic . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a_few hundred feet long from crest to crest - no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1000 feet in the Pacific . (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)The latter 's real descendents were unable to take_root in England ; they fled from the Victorian parlor and made their way across the stormy Atlantic . Related terms ocean bermuda_triangle north_atlantic south_atlantic Iceland Greenland West_Indies New_York_Bay Long_Island_Sound Newfoundland British_Isles Cape_Verde_Islands Gulf_of_Mexico Gulf_of_Guinea English_Channel Antarctic_Ocean North_Sea Norwegian_Sea Faroe_Islands Biscayne_Bay Bay_of_Biscay Falkland_Islands Trafalgar Delaware_Bay Chesapeake_Bay Bay_of_Fundy Shetland Orkney_Islands tenerife democratic_republic_of_sao_tome_and_principe galway_bay gulf_of_saint_lawrence labrador_sea massachusetts_bay penobscot_bay sargasso_sea buzzards_bay Sao_Tome_e_Principe Bermuda windward_passage Trafalgar |
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[ adjective ] relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Examples "Atlantic currents" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)It was Dickson who suggested to Lord_Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United_States . |
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