DAVY JONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Davy Jones mean? 

• DAVY JONES (noun)
  The noun DAVY JONES has 1 sense:

1. the bottom of a sea or ocean

  Familiarity information: DAVY JONES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAVY JONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bottom of a sea or ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; sea floor; seabed

Hypernyms ("Davy Jones" is a kind of...):

bed; bottom (a depression forming the ground under a body of water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Davy Jones"):

abyssal zone (the deep sea (2000 meters or more) where there is no light)

continental shelf (the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent)

bathyal district; bathyal zone; continental slope (the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone)

neritic zone (the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms)

twilight zone (the lowest level of the ocean to which light can reach)

 Context examples 

And you're the last above board of that same meddling crew; and you have the Davy Jones's insolence to up and stand for cap'n over me—you, that sank the lot of us!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Why, in the name of Davy Jones,” said he, “is Dr. Livesey mad?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If you won't, my name is Alexander Smollett, I've flown my sovereign's colours, and I'll see you all to Davy Jones.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)