Thalassa

[ thuh-las-uh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. the personification of the sea.

Example Sentences

Near the coast, at a hip new restaurant and beach club called Thalassa, with a tan and white palette suggesting Miami or Mykonos, the wall behind the bar shined bright lights on local gin.

From New York Times

Three breweries had worked with the Thalassa Diving School to age what would have become 2,000 bottles’ worth of beer inside the wreck of the Kronomether, a Soviet-era ship which had been abandoned off the coast of Mar del Plata, Aregentina, in 1991, according to the report.

From Fox News

Naiad and Thalassa’s strange salsa — a type of repeating orbital pattern known as an orbital resonance — was likely set up in the distant astronomical past.

From New York Times

It zips up and down, passing by Thalassa twice from above then twice from below, a cycle that repeats whenever Naiad has lapped Thalassa four times.

From New York Times

This produced Neptune’s rings and its innermost moons, including Naiad and Thalassa, which serendipitously fell into their odd yet steady orbits.

From New York Times