ARCTIC OCEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctic Ocean mean? 

• ARCTIC OCEAN (noun)
  The noun ARCTIC OCEAN has 1 sense:

1. ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs

  Familiarity information: ARCTIC OCEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCTIC OCEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "Arctic Ocean"):

Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean)

Greenland; Gronland; Kalaallit Nunaat (the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark)

Baffin Island (the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay)

New Siberian Islands (a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea)

Barents Sea (the part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia)

Beaufort Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the northeast of Alaska)

Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean just to the north of the Bering Strait)

Greenland Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland)

Kara Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year)

Laptev Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year)

 Context examples 

The latter was from a group of about 300 mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas helps regulate the planet’s temperature, influences the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean, and impacts Arctic communities and ecosystems.

(Arctic Sea Ice Annual Minimum Ties Second Lowest on Record, NASA)

An island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada.

(Greenland, NCI Thesaurus)

The continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

(Europe, NCI Thesaurus)

That shining sea was the Arctic Ocean.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)