Meaning & use

asea

adverb·Advanced

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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