Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The world's second-largest ocean, divided into the North Atlantic and the South Atlantic. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Antarctic in the south between the eastern Americas and western Europe and Africa.
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- proper noun The ocean lying between the
Americas to the west andEurope andAfrica to the east.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
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Examples
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Atlantic Island, which extended from Cadiz over the sea we traverse to the Indies, and which all cosmographers call the Atlantic Ocean because the Atlantic Island was in it, over which we now navigate, was land in ancient times.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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He said it in the tone people use for when they call the Atlantic Ocean the
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Not About Yve 2010
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Not About Yve 2010
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Not About Yve 2010
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Not About Yve 2010
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Jimmy T. felt like he had been king frog in a small pond, although that small pond he leads in is called The Atlantic Ocean, and as ponds go, it's the second-largest on earth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Not About Yve Tallulah Morehead 2010
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Of course destroying the Gulf of Mexico and who knows, perhaps the Atlantic Ocean is a big boo boo, and is too much even for these water carriers to witness.
Watch the rats leave the sinking ship: Olbermann, et al, on the President’s oil spill speech 2010
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Of the five ocean basins, the Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest.
Sea water 2009
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