seven seas

English

Alternative forms

• Seven Seas

Noun

seven seas pl (plural only)

1. (poetic) 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.)

Derived terms

• Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

Translations

all of the Earths oceans

• Arabic: اَلْبِحَار اَلسَّبْعَة (al-biḥār as-sabʕa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 七海 (zh) (qīhǎi)

• Danish: de syv have n pl
• French: sept mers (fr) f pl
• German: sieben Meere
• Italian: sette mari f
• Japanese: 七つの海 (ja) (ななつのうみ, nanatsu no umi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: de sju hav n pl

  Nynorsk: dei sju hav n pl

• Polish: siedem mórz
• Portuguese: sete mares m pl
• Russian: семь море́й (semʹ moréj)
• Thai: เจ็ดคาบสมุทร, เจ็ดย่านน้ำ