SOUTH SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Sea mean? 

• SOUTH SEA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH SEA has 1 sense:

1. any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)

  Familiarity information: SOUTH SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("South Sea" is a kind of...):

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

 Context examples 

After three years expectation that things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South Sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For the love of goodness, child, exclaimed my aunt, don't call the woman by that South Sea Island name!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He decided that he would describe to her many of the bits of South Sea beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember his conclusion, his black eyes flashing as he said, ‘Gentlemen, the South Sea Islander may do it, the Malay may do it, but take my word it’s beyond the white man.’

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"I think I am nearer the truth," she replied, "when I stand by the established, than you are, raging around like an iconoclastic South Sea Islander."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)