Meaning & use
asea
At sea; away from land and out on the open water.
See it in a sentence
The old sailor spent nearly forty years asea before finally retiring.
The ship's crew had been asea for three months without sighting land.
A note on using this word
Asea is a rare, mainly literary or nautical word; 'at sea' is the far more common everyday phrase.
Words with a similar meaning
at sea
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Words with an opposite meaning
ashore
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