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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A part of the northern Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and the Azores. The relatively calm sea is noted for the abundance of gulfweed floating on its surface.
Wiktionary
- n. An elongated area in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by ocean currents.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed
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“It was also rumoured that German engineers were secretly building a durable, concrete landmass in the Sargasso Sea which was to be the new Atlantis and, it was said, would be a threat to French East Africa; but it seems that this went no further than laying the foundations.”
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