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South Seas

plural noun

  1. the seas south of the equator.


South Seas

plural noun

  1. the seas south of the equator
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

South Seas

  1. The central, southern, and southwestern portions of the Pacific Ocean .
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Example Sentences

For a dozen outposts of the Longchamps restaurant chain, Reiss provided scenery that transported diners to the South Seas, 17th-century New Amsterdam and futuristic rows of gilded skyscrapers.

The view of Mount Rainier from the living room competes with Price’s collection of eye-popping modern furniture and South Seas art.

The Luf Boat is just one particularly notable example: Today there are approximately 65,000 South Seas objects in Berlin’s museums, and, Aly writes, “every one of these items carries the legitimate suspicion of having been acquired at an unfair price or with deceit and violence by hunters, collectors, and traders of ethnographic valuables.”

For a South Seas saga to sink your teeth into, try …

Floyd, a cinematographer, received a 1931 Oscar for his work on “Tabu: A Story of the South Seas.”

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