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/pəsˈɪfɪk ˈoʊʃən/ Listen

adjective

pacific adj.

Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; as, a pacific nature or condition.

Synonyms: peaceable.

Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts.

Synonyms: irenic.

Of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean; as, Pacific islands.

Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea.

Synonyms: Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.

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Etymology of 'Pacific Ocean'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pacific ocean" Quotes from Famous Books

... cables, and flying are speeding up communications to a degree undreamed of a few years ago. If the air is to be a prime factor in the world-phase to come, how will the British Empire be affected? Stretching from Great Britain to Australia and the Pacific Ocean, the Empire depends more than any other political and commercial organization on the most modern and speedy communications, and as each of its portions assumes greater responsibility there is greater need for co-operation, the distribution of information, ...

— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

... shorn the Empire of the Thirteen Colonies and the great region south of the Lakes, it had left unimpaired the provinces to the east and {2} north—Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Canada—while still farther north and west an unexplored continent in itself, stretching to the Pacific Ocean, was either held in the tight grip of the Hudson's Bay Company or was shortly to be won by its intrepid rival, the North-West Company of Montreal. There were not lacking men of prescience and courage who looked beyond the misfortunes of the hour, and who saw in the ...

— The Fathers of Confederation - A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion • A. H. U. Colquhoun

... the house undertaking, for the sum of two thousand dollars each, to pay all transportation and board bills in accordance with a very comprehensive itinerary. This embraced the passage across the continent of America and the Pacific Ocean to Japan, with a month of residence and travel in that country; thence to China and up the Pearl River to Canton; a week in Hong Kong; a thousand-mile voyage down the China Sea to the chief ports of the Malacca Straits; across the Indian Ocean to the Island of Ceylon, with a week for excursions ...

— Due West - or Round the World in Ten Months • Maturin Murray Ballou

... for the United States to effect a passage from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean, and I am certain that they will do it. Would that I could live to see it, but I ...

— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James

... districts may be described as consisting of that section of the state including the Olympic mountains and extending westward from them to the Pacific ocean. Within the limits of this Olympic peninsula, as it is ordinarily termed, there is standing one of the largest and most valuable tracts of virgin timber yet remaining in the ...

— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell

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