Oversea

Definition: Oversea

Oversea

Adjective

1. Being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas trade in grain arose".

Adverb

1. Beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many years".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "oversea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonym: Oversea

Still oversea, could it be the whole world opening wide (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran)

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Books

• Evaluating the Financial Performance of Oversea Operations (reference)

• Finance of oversea trade (reference)

• The influence of oversea expansion on England to 1700 (reference)

• Trade and dominion: the European oversea empires in the eighteenth century (reference)

• Violets from Oversea (Poets of the First World War) (reference)

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Mr. H. M. Flagler and party leaving first train to arrive at Key West, Fla. Oversea Florida East Coast R. R. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Germany renounces in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all her rights and titles over her oversea possessions. (reference)

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Expression using "oversea": oversea base. Additional references.

Albanian

jashtë (above, beyond, cross-country, forth, off side, out, outboard, outdoors, out-of-door, outside, outward, outwards, without), i jashtëm (adventitious, apparent, exterior, extern, external, foreign, out, outdoor, outer, outlying, outside, outward, overseas), i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, external, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, overseas, peregrine, strange, stranger, tramontane). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من الخارج (from overseas), ‏أجنبي (alien, barbarian, foreign, outlandish, strange, stranger). (various references)

Bulgarian 

външен (adventitious, adventive, exterior, external, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, formal, inorganic, ostentatious, outdoor, outer, out-of-door, outside, outward, over, overall, overseas, showy, surface), в чужбина (abroad, overseas), отвъд океана (over sea, overseas), отвъд морето (over sea, overseas), задокеански, задморски (transmarine, ultramarine), за чужбина (overseas), през море (overseas). (various references)

Czech

zámořský (deep sea, overseas, transatlantic, transmarine). (various references)

Danish

oversoeisk handel (oversea trade), transmissionsvej over hav (oversea path). (various references)

Dutch

overzeehandel (oversea trade), pad over zee (oversea path). (various references)

Finnish

valtamerentakainen (transatlantic). (various references)

French

trajet maritime (oversea path), trafic d'outre-mer (oversea trade). (various references)

German

übersee (overseas). (various references)

Greek 

υπερπόντια διακίνηση (oversea trade), θαλάσσια τροχιά (oversea path). (various references)

Hungarian

tengeren túl (beyond the sea, over the sea, overseas), külföldi (alien, alien friend, expatriate, external, foreign, foreigner, monitor, offshore, overseas, peregrine, stranger, to depend on foreign supplies). (various references)

Manx

har mooir. (various references)

Pig Latin

overseaay.(various references)

Portuguese

ultramarino (transmarine), para além do mar (overseas), no ultramar (overseas), externo (foreign, non-resident, out-college, outer, outermost, outmost, outside, outward, over), estrangeiro (abroad, alien, continental, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gringo, outlandish, peregrine, strange, stranger, tramontane), em país estrangeiro (overseas). (various references)

Romanian

strãin (alien, another's, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, guest, heterogeneous, outlandish, outsider, peregrine, strange, stranger, unknown, visitor), exterior (appearance, exterior, external, out, outdoor, outer, outside, outward), dincolo de mare (overseas), de peste mare, de peste hotare, de dincolo de ocean, de dincolo de mare. (various references)

Russian 

заморский (outlandish, overseas, peregrin, transmarine, ultramarine), за морем. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekomorski (maritime, overseas, seaborne, transmarine, ultramarine), preko mora (overseas). (various references)

Spanish

en ultramar (overseas), de ultramar (overseas), allende el mar (overseas). (various references)

Turkish

denizaşırı (overseas, transmarine, ultramarine). (various references)

Ukrainian

через море (overseas), закордонний (foreign, overseas), заокеанський (overseas, transoceanic), заморський (outland, outlandish, overseas, ultramarine), за кордоном (abroad, overseas), за кордон (overseas), за морем (overseas). (various references)

Welsh

tramor (foreign, transmarine). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "oversea": overseas. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Oversea" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Boersema, Obersee, Oveissi, oversman. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: averse, reaves, soever.

-2 letters: arose, arvos, avers, eaves, erase, erose, oaves, overs, raves, reave, roves, saree, saver, savor, serve, servo, sever, soave, veers, verse, verso.

-3 letters: aero, ares, arse, arvo, aver, aves, avos, ears, ease, eave, eras, eros, ever, eves, oars, ores, osar, over, rase, rave, rees, revs, roes, rose, rove, save, sear.

+1 letter: overages, overawes, overeasy, overeats, oversale, oversave, overseas.

+2 letters: coverages, eavesdrop, elevators, endeavors, levatores, makeovers, ovenwares, overbakes, overbears, overbeats, overdares, overfears, overhates, overheads, overheaps, overhears, overheats, overlades, overleaps, overrates, oversales, oversauce, oversaved, oversaves, overscale, overstate, overtakes, overtaxes, overwears, overzeals, renovates, takeovers.

+3 letters: eavesdrops, endeavours, evaporates, evaporites, gravestone, manoeuvres, observable, observance, operatives, overarches, overassert, overcasted, overcleans, overclears, overdosage, overeaters, overglazes, overgrazes, overlearns, overmaster, overpassed, overpasses, overpedals, overpraise, overreacts, oversalted, oversauced, oversauces, overscaled, oversoaked, overspread, overstated, overstates, overstayed, overtasked, overtrades, overtreats, overvalues, overwaters, paloverdes, reapproves, resolvable, revelators, supernovae, venerators, votaresses, whatsoever.