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seven seas

also Seven Seas
pl.n.
All the oceans of the world.
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seven seas

pl n
(Physical Geography) the oceans of the world considered as the N and S Pacific, the N and S Atlantic, and the Arctic, Antarctic, and Indian Oceans
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sev′en seas′


n.pl.
(sometimes caps.) the navigable waters of the world.
[1870–75]
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Noun 1. seven seas - an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world; "the old salt had sailed the seven seas"
body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge"
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At moments his deliverances seemed to stir people of different minds to fury in two continents, so far as they were English-speaking, and on the coasts of the seven seas; and some of these came back at him with such violent personalities as it is his satisfaction to remember that he never indulged in his attacks upon their theories of criticism and fiction.
That was a pirate-ship--Ben Ali's --the most terrible pirate that ever sailed the Seven Seas! That old gentleman with the high hat, who's staying up at Mrs.
No ship that sailed the seven seas could have borne him away from Africa to resume his search for his lost boy with half the speed that the Englishman would have desired, and the slow-moving Kincaid seemed scarce to move at all to the impatient mind of the bereaved father.
There was scarcely a battered tramp on the Seven Seas that was not his on time charter.
The Barbary Coast of San Francisco, once the old-time sailor-town in the days when San Francisco was reckoned the toughest port of the Seven Seas, had evolved with the city until it depended for at least half of its earnings on the slumming parties that visited it and spent liberally.
When Bobby came up from Deolali and took his place among the Tail Twisters, it was gently but firmly borne in upon him that the Regiment was his father and his mother and his indissolubly wedded wife, and that there was no crime under the canopy of heaven blacker than that of bringing shame on the Regiment, which was the best-shooting, best-drilled, best set-up, bravest, most illustrious, and in all respects most desirable Regiment within the compass of the Seven Seas. He was taught the legends of the Mess Plate, from the great grinning Golden Gods that had come out of the Summer Palace in Pekin to the silver-mounted markhor-horn snuffmull presented by the last C.
THOMAS (Charlotte Amalie) Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Crystal, Cunard, Disney, Holland America, MSC, Norwegian, Princess, Radisson Seven Seas, Royal Caribbean, Seabourn, Windjammer, Windstar.
Medieval and Arabic literature often referred to "the Seven Seas" because seven was regarded as a mystical number and categories of things were often arranged in groups of seven.
BENEATH THE SEVEN SEAS: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology GEORGE F.
Commissioner Benepe sounded a steam train whistle and the Carnival Cruise Lines Legend and the Radisson Seven Seas Cruises Seven Seas Navigator, two cruise ships in port at New York's Passenger Ship Terminal, responded by sounding their horns to commemorate the opening.
Sinbad: legend of the seven seas (u, 85mins) Family.
Boarding the Seven Seas Navigator is like joining a private club where the crew know you by name, not the number of your suite.

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