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Word entry · 7 letters

oversea

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"Across the water"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/Part of speech adverb, adjectiveSorted aeeorsvStarts with OEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. beyond or across the sea

Word origin

From Middle English over-se, over see, ouer sea, from Old English ofer sǣ (literally “over/across (the) sea”); equivalent to over + sea. Compare West Frisian oerseesk, Dutch overzee, German Übersee, Danish oversøisk.

Used in a sentence

  • It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.

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