sea
Meanings
- A large body of salt water.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- A single wave; billow.
- The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
- Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
- A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- Abbreviation of Seattle.
- Initialism of Southeast Asia.
- Initialism of Single European Act.
- Initialism of Strategic Environmental Assessment.
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Ilminster parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3413).
- Synonym of Mediterranean Sea.
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English see, from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi (“body of water”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, itself either: * Derived from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”). Related to Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), and Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”). More at sore. * Derived from Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-. Cognates Cognate with Yola zea, zee (“sea”), North Frisian See, sia, siie (“sea; lake”), Saterland Frisian See, Säi (“sea”), West Frisian see (“sea”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno sea (“lake”), Dutch zee (“sea”), German and German Low German See (“sea”), Limburgish Sië, zieë (“sea, ocean; lake”), Luxembourgish Séi (“lake”), West Flemish zji (“sea; seaside”), Danish sø (“sea; lake”), Faroese sjógvur (“sea; big wave”), Icelandic sjár, sjór, sær (“sea”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sjø (“sea, ocean; lake”), Swedish sjö (“sea; lake; big wave”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (saiws, “lake, sea; marshland”).