Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, the Arctic, Antarctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, and Indian.
Wiktionary
alt. (context poetic English) All of the oceans of the world. (In a common modern interpretation, the seven seas are the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic, but historical interpretations differ widely; see the Wikipedia article for this.) n. (context poetic English) All of the oceans of the world. (In a common modern interpretation, the seven seas are the North and South Atlantic, North and South Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic, but historical interpretations differ widely; see the Wikipedia article for this.)
WordNet
n. an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world; "the old salt had sailed the seven seas"
Wikipedia
The "Seven Seas" (as in the idiom "sail the Seven Seas") is an ancient phrase for all the world's oceans. Since the 19th century, the term has been taken to include seven oceanic bodies of water:
- the Arctic Ocean
- the North Atlantic Ocean
- the South Atlantic Ocean
- the Indian Ocean
- the North Pacific Ocean
- the South Pacific Ocean
- the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean
The World Ocean is also collectively known as " the sea". The International Hydrographic Organization lists over 70 distinct bodies of water called seas.
" Seven Seas" is a phrase used to encompass all the world's oceans in general.
Seven seas may also refer to:
Companies and brands- Seven Seas Entertainment, an American publisher of manga and light novels
- Seven Seas (company), a UK vitamin brand owned by Merck KGaA
- Douglas DC-7C "Seven Seas", an extended-range variant of the DC-7 aircraft
- Seven Seas - a passenger liner
- Seven Seas Navigator - a cruise ship
- "Seven Seas" (song), a 1984 single by Echo & the Bunnymen, also on their LP Ocean Rain
- "Seven Seas", a song by the Norwegian rock/metal band TNT
- " Seven Seas of Rhye", a song by Queen
- "Seven Seas", the 2011 album by Avishai Cohen and the title track
- " Sailing on the Seven Seas", a 1991 single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
- Seven Seas Salad Dressing, a Kraft-owned line of salad dressing
- Seven Seas Residence, former residence of Republic of China President Chiang Ching-kuo
- The Seven Seas (poetry collection), a volume of poetry by Rudyard Kipling
Seven Seas is a compilation album of Echo & the Bunnymen songs. It was released on 12 September 2005 in the United Kingdom and on 13 September 2005 in the United States where it is called Seven Seas: The Platinum Collection.
"Seven Seas" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released on 6 July 1984. It was the third single to be released from their 1984 album Ocean Rain. It reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 10 on the Irish Singles Chart.
In a retrospective review of the song, Allmusic journalist Dave Thompson said: "Regardless of the surreal lyrics, their enigmatic meaning dovetails marvelously with the mood of this exquisite piece."
Seven Seas Ltd is a supplier of vitamins, minerals and supplements in the United Kingdom and abroad. It began in 1934 when a group of trawler owners in Hull formed a co-operative venture called British Cod Liver Oil (BCLO) Producers to exploit one of the fishing industry's most valuable by-products.
In the early days BCLO sold various oils under simple descriptions such as Cod Oil, Pale Oil, Cattle Oil, Ruby Oil and Dark Cod Oil. Medicinal cod liver oil was still to be produced in the early years. The company offices were situated on the south side of St Andrews Dock in Hull but were not large enough to cope with the company's plans to market high quality veterinary oil and produce medicinal oil to conform to pharmaceutical standards.
A new factory was built in Marfleet, the Marfleet Refinery, at the time, the world's largest cod liver oil refinery. The product produced and sold by BCLO was called SOLVITAX.
Seven Seas is the fourth studio album from Emancipator, released 25 September 2015
Usage examples of "seven seas".
One of the older missionaries frowned at this intelligence, marling it down as one more proof of their doctor's essentially trivial attitude toward life, but his adverse opinion was not reported to his companions, because from a point forward of the Thetis a new board swept into view, and this one bore not a mere swimmer, but a nymph, a nude symbolization of all the pagan islands in the seven seas.
Pitt doubted whether any boats that ever sailed the seven seas were as bizarre as this one.
And then, the following year or the one after, I'll sail her up the Thames to London, her pockets full of gold and the seven seas in her wake.
After ten o'clock tomorrow morning the Quest will be the most sought-after ship in the Seven Seas.
He'd a wife in Sydney and another in Hull and claimed a nodding acquaintance with the population of practically every port in the Seven Seas.
If you ever decide to leave NUMA and want a job sailing the seven seas to exotic ports, send me your resume.
I tell them you are a director of the bank and you were trying to turn the estate assets into money by secretly making a deal with Seven Seas.
For to the tavern loafers and to some of the weaker among the straightforward villagers, these men with their wild talk and their brutal deeds, their tales of the Seven Seas and the far countries, these men, I say, were valiant knights, nature's noblemen who dared to be men of blood and brawn.
You start a business trading coconuts, you supervise the hemp harvest, the natives work for you, you sail from island to island, and everyone calls you Seven Seas Jim.
Stone crabs, the glorious imperial yellow, scarlet and ebony exaltations of all the crabs of all the seven seas, the epicure’.