North Sea

noun

1. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 square miles (520,600 square kilometers); greatest depth, 1,998 feet (610 meters).

North Sea

noun

1. an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the N European mainland. Area: about 569 800 sq km (220 000 sq miles) Former nameGerman Ocean

North Sea

1. Arm of the Atlantic Ocean northwest of central Europe .

Notes

Oil was discovered under the sea floor in 1970.

Word History and Origins

Origin of North Sea¹

Firsr recorded before 1000

Example Sentences

North Sea oil and gas, which accounts for 14% of Norway’s GDP, 40% of exports, and employs 7% of its workforce, has made the country one of the richest in the world, by GDP per capita.

From Time

In 2014, a Netherlands-based company opened an osmotic plant perched atop the Afsluitdijk, a dike that separates the salty North Sea from the freshwater bay of IJsselmeer.

From Popular-Science

Years earlier, Merrell, a physical oceanographer at Texas A&M University at Galveston, had toured the gigantic Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier, a nearly 6-mile-long bulwark that prevents North Sea storms from flooding the southern Dutch coast.

From Popular-Science

With limited land and many cities that are at or below sea level, the Dutch are taking advantage of their North Sea border to create new energy sources.

From Ozy

Nuclear-capable Russian bombers are flying over the North Sea and the Atlantic.

From The Daily Beast

Aberdeen, perched on the North Sea, offers a perfect example of the schism between the top and bottom earners.

From The Daily Beast

Proceeds from its North Sea drilling rigs will insure corruption and kleptocracy on a Nigerian scale.

From The Daily Beast

My parents came from the tiny island of Föhr in the North Sea off the coast of Germany and Denmark.

From The Daily Beast

Stigler escorted the bomber over the North Sea and took one last look at the American pilot.

From The Daily Beast

A sailor, who had brought an accordion with him, was playing "While the North Sea roars," and other popular airs.

From Project Gutenberg

Few people know that large numbers of the splendid seamen who man our North Sea fishing fleets are arrant Cockneys.

From Project Gutenberg

He knew his way about the North Sea blindfold, and all he didn't know about his trade wasn't worth knowing.

From Project Gutenberg

The steam-tug had not to contend with the ordinary straightforward rush of a North Sea storm.

From Project Gutenberg

Is the Prince kept prisoner on a trawler sweeping the North Sea for mines?

From Project Gutenberg