seabed

noun

sea·​bed ˈsē-ˌbed How to pronounce seabed (audio)
variants or less commonly sea bed
plural seabeds also sea beds
: the floor of a sea or ocean : seafloor
This atoll is the summit of an undersea volcano that rises from the seabed 10,000 feet below the surface.Kennedy Warne

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During the twentieth century, decades of looting by divers and unlicensed salvage companies stripped some seabeds clean. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 Instead of taking regular steps when entering shallow waters, individuals shuffle their feet along the sandy seabed. Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 By March 5, 2022, as a winter worthy of Game of Thrones approached, 80 percent of the search box — covering 120 square miles of seabed — had been explored with no success. Sean Kingsley, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2024 Its holdings include much of the UK’s seabed, and with it rights to grant permissions to build offshore wind farms, lay pipelines, and store carbon under the seabed. Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for seabed 

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of seabed was in 1838

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“Seabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seabed. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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seabed

noun
sea·​bed ˈsē-ˌbed How to pronounce seabed (audio)
: the floor of a sea or ocean

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