Definition of South Sea

1. Noun. Any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific).

Generic synonyms: Sea

Lexicographical Neighbors of South Sea

South Korean monetary unit
South Korean won
South Koreans
South Levantine Arabic
South Manchuria
South Ndebele
South Ossetia
South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast
South Pacific
South Park
South Platte
South Platte River
South Pole
South Sami
South Sandwiches
South Sea (current term)
South Sea Islands
South Shetland Islands
South Shields
South Slavic
South Sudan
South Sudanese
South Sulawesi
South Sumatra
South Tarawa
South Temperate Zone
South Tibet
South Tyrol
South Vietnam
South Wales

Literary usage of South Sea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: His Life and by Daniel Defoe, William Lee (1869)
"4th) a Clergyman presented an Ode to the Directors of the South Sea Company, ... Our South Sea Equipages encrease every Day. The City Ladies buy South Sea ..."

2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"South Sea BUBBLES. An August in the highlands Is a chilly shadow of my lands ; O! for an hour of the fervent heat That nurses the South Sea Islands. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"unfortunately, people were deceived by the arts and the rashness of the Directors, with the extraordinary consequence that " the more the South Sea Company ..."

4. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"The estates of the directors of the South-sea company are confiscated—§ XXXII. Proceedings of the commons with respect to the stock of the South-sea company ..."

5. The History of England, from the Revolution of 1688, to the Death of George by Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Next day Walpole produced his scheme, to ingraft nine millions of South Sea stock into the bank of England, and the like sum into the East India company,-on ..."

6. Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings ; Extending from by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"'Tis said the South Sea Company, in the great Hurry at the Subscription last Tuesday, took above a Million and a half more than they intended. ..."

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