overseaadj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈsiː/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈsi/

Forms: see over- prefix and sea n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: oversea adv.

Etymology: < oversea adv. Compare overseas adj. (see note below).When referring to other countries, use of this word is now less common than overseas adj. Compare Old English ofersǣwisc, ofersǣlic, both in sense ‘from across the sea, foreign’ (respectively < over- prefix + sea n. + -ish suffix¹ and < over- prefix + sea n. + -ly suffix¹).

†a. Imported from across the sea; made or originating abroad; characteristic of people or customs from across the sea. Obsolete. oversea dream n. Scottish a far-fetched, fanciful, or pretentious idea.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad > imported from abroad

oversea1509

exallotriote1849

1509 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 5 To Sir Thomas Pilley my wedding ringe and a overse bed.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86 Some farre iorneid ientlemen at their returne home..will pouder their talke w^t ouersea language.

1600 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 279 Item, one over sea coveringe, xvs.

a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 68 Thair conceats and owersie dreames, imitation of Genev discipline.

a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) III. 369 His new opinions, and over-sea dreams touching discipline and policie of the Kirk.

1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 94 We car'd nae scantly nae scantly ae babee For o'er-sea drams.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. v. 87 I care not for those over-sea refinements.

1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. iii. 35 A hale black-aviced man, of an o'ersea look.

1893 Times 6 July 11/1 They were..betrayed by their oversea accents.

b. Of a person: from across the sea, from abroad; expatriate. Cf. overseas adj. 2.

ΚΠ

1813 T. Morton Education iii. iv. 38 Ralph, see!—He's leading a strange looking man—one of your oversea foreigners.

?1921 E. Wells Fragments 12 Call them ‘oversea soldiers’, or down-under men.

1955 P. Townsend China Phoenix 9 He was Fukienese by birth, from a province of China from which came many oversea Chinese.

1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark v. 40 Oversea people is more botheration than me can take.

2. Relating to movement or transport across the sea; (also) occurring above the sea (rather than above land).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea

nautical1552

oversea1552

maritimal1587

maritime1588

nautic1613

seagoing1895

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > passing or extending across the sea or ocean

oversea1552

transmarine1860

trans-oceanic1868

transocean1901

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ouersea, transmarinus, as well in goynge as commynge.

1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 46 The oursey trafficque of mariage growing cauld.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4674/1 An Act..for taking off the Oversea Duty on Coals exported in British Bottoms.

1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 416 The..amount of the Irish over-sea trade.

1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. Mar. 96 We take into consideration the numerous losses and disasters, and the rapid increase of the over-sea carrying trade.

1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 6 The Navy..for oversea attack is plainly essential.

1953 Cape Times 17 Apr. 9/8 The group of volkspelers..will sail on an oversea tour in to-day's mailship.

1991 Flyer (BNC) Feb. The oversea navigation is by tracking the VOR needle and watching an almost indistinguishable horizon of sea and sky.

a. Situated in a country across the sea; abroad; = overseas adj. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > that is beyond the sea or ocean

transmarine1583

transmaritime1610

transmarinal1614

oversea1645

ultramarine1652

trans-oceanic1827

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad

althedyOE

strange1297

foreigna1393

outward1427

extern1543

abroad1559

external1587

stranger1593

tramontane1596

oversea1645

transmontane1727

trans-oceanic1827

overseas1892

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 6 The wife of youth, that..expects he [sc. her husband] shall return to her from over-sea lands.

1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 175 Our kintry sure is unco deitit, To be wi' owr-sea fock outwitit.

1909 T. W. Rolleston Sea Spray 12 Come with me, Etain, O come away, To that Oversea Land of mine!

1931 Times 17 Feb. 9/1 The competition of our rivals in the home and oversea markets.

1955 Times 1 July 8/5 The congress..has appointed five rapporteurs on..the French oversea territories.

1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 159 Schedule 8A continued to apply with certain modifications and exemptions to the accounts of oversea companies, that is companies incorporated outside Great Britain but having a place of business there.

b. Relating to or concerned with countries across the sea; = overseas adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

un-i-cundeeOE

althedisheOE

althedyOE

elelendisha1000

fremda1000

outlandishOE

strange1297

outenc1300

unkindc1300

outlandsc1330

foreign?1435

outland1488

peregrine1532

uncouth1533

forinsecal1539

exterior1540

extern1543

unnative1568

uplandish1586

external1587

tramontane1596

exotical1601

estranged1614

undenizened1635

extra-marine1639

outlanding1643

ultramarine1656

transmontane1727

forinsec service1728

foreigneering1806

trans-oceanic1827

vilayati1843

alienized1860

oversea1881

overwater1889

overseas1892

furrin1895

non-native1932

1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Knowsley 27 Oct. The questions of what I may call over-sea policy in Europe, Asia, and America.

1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxii. 168 The guest there, with his over-sea knowledge and experience.

1959 Times 30 July 6/6 (heading) Council formed for oversea research.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xiii. 139 The chain of command starts with the Cabinet's Defence and Oversea Policy Committee.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

overseaadv.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈsiː/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈsi/

Forms: see over prep. and sea n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: over prep., sea n.

Etymology: < over prep. + sea n. Compare overseas adv. (see note below). Compare also oversea adj.This word is now less commonly used than overseas adv.

1. Across the sea; to a country across the sea; = overseas adv. 2.

ΚΠ

OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 957 On þam ylcan geare wæs Dunstan abbod adræfed ofer sæ.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1104 Se cyng his folc ofer sæ into Normandig sende.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) Leir..mid ane alpie swein..ouer sea [c1300 Otho ouer see] icomen.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2646 (MED) Þe king of is men at helde woch he wolde & driue aȝen ouerse [v.r. ouer þe se] þulke þat he nolde.

c1390 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 4257 Two men..wolde han passed ouer see For certeyn cause in to a fer contree.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 97 (MED) He went þerwith our se into a noder contre.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 115 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 544 (MED) The ship..is cleped an hors of tree..To leden men & carien ouer see.

1571 St. Trials, Duke Norfolk (R.) He had made show before, that he intended to go over sea.

1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. i In Cornewall wee are all for wrastling, and I doe not meane to trauell ouer sea to roare there.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 63 And what though all this go not oversea? 'twere better it did.

1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 130 When he was landed in Flanders, he writ to me to Inform me he was got safe over Sea.

1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iii. i. 36 A better man than ever trod in your shoes is coming over sea to marry me.

1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell v. iii. 461 An English boat Had borne me oversea by secret night.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey iii Have you not come oversea in quest of your father?

1984 A. R. Burn Persia & Greeks (BNC) 327 But Xerxes would not have taken the whole army with him oversea.

2. On the other side of the sea; in a country across the sea, abroad; = overseas adv. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > over sea

over seaOE

oversea?a1475

overseas1583

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s)

beyond the seasc900

without1297

o brodea1400

on brodea1400

abroada1450

overseas1583

oversea1616

in foreigna1640

foreign1813

over sea1845

exterritorially1853

out foreign1895

?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 485 Alle oþer castells and towres over see longynge to the crowne of Ynglonde.

1616 Sir G. Hay Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) vii. 146 If he be not found there [i.e. at Court], it is likely that he pretended Court, and meant over-sea.

a1626 N. Breton Toyes of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) 35 (title) A letter sent by a gentlewoman, in verse, to her husband, being ouer sea.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer i. 17 Great people over sea may write to our town's folks, because they have nothing else to do.

1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl II. v. 97 I wish the fingers of the sempstress over sea had been blistered ere they stitched that foul mantle.

1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine v. ii. 128 For in my father's kingdom oversea.

1943 Times 18 Sept. 2/5 The latest dates of posting for correspondence intended for Christmas delivery at destinations oversea.

1991 D. Craig King Cameron (BNC) 107 The numbers of men who might be taken. The likelihood of their serving at home or oversea.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	oversea
释义	overseaadj. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈsiː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈsi/ Forms: see over- prefix and sea n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: oversea adv. Etymology: < oversea adv. Compare overseas adj. (see note below).When referring to other countries, use of this word is now less common than overseas adj. Compare Old English ofersǣwisc, ofersǣlic, both in sense ‘from across the sea, foreign’ (respectively < over- prefix + sea n. + -ish suffix¹ and < over- prefix + sea n. + -ly suffix¹). 1. †a. Imported from across the sea; made or originating abroad; characteristic of people or customs from across the sea. Obsolete. oversea dream n. Scottish a far-fetched, fanciful, or pretentious idea. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad > imported from abroad oversea1509 exallotriote1849 1509 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 5 To Sir Thomas Pilley my wedding ringe and a overse bed. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 86 Some farre iorneid ientlemen at their returne home..will pouder their talke w^t ouersea language. 1600 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 279 Item, one over sea coveringe, xvs. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 68 Thair conceats and owersie dreames, imitation of Genev discipline. a1650 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) III. 369 His new opinions, and over-sea dreams touching discipline and policie of the Kirk. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 94 We car'd nae scantly nae scantly ae babee For o'er-sea drams. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. v. 87 I care not for those over-sea refinements. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. iii. 35 A hale black-aviced man, of an o'ersea look. 1893 Times 6 July 11/1 They were..betrayed by their oversea accents. b. Of a person: from across the sea, from abroad; expatriate. Cf. overseas adj. 2. ΚΠ 1813 T. Morton Education iii. iv. 38 Ralph, see!—He's leading a strange looking man—one of your oversea foreigners. ?1921 E. Wells Fragments 12 Call them ‘oversea soldiers’, or down-under men. 1955 P. Townsend China Phoenix 9 He was Fukienese by birth, from a province of China from which came many oversea Chinese. 1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark v. 40 Oversea people is more botheration than me can take. 2. Relating to movement or transport across the sea; (also) occurring above the sea (rather than above land). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > [adjective] > on the sea nautical1552 oversea1552 maritimal1587 maritime1588 nautic1613 seagoing1895 the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > passing or extending across the sea or ocean oversea1552 transmarine1860 trans-oceanic1868 transocean1901 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ouersea, transmarinus, as well in goynge as commynge. 1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 46 The oursey trafficque of mariage growing cauld. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4674/1 An Act..for taking off the Oversea Duty on Coals exported in British Bottoms. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 416 The..amount of the Irish over-sea trade. 1861 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. Mar. 96 We take into consideration the numerous losses and disasters, and the rapid increase of the over-sea carrying trade. 1894 C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet 6 The Navy..for oversea attack is plainly essential. 1953 Cape Times 17 Apr. 9/8 The group of volkspelers..will sail on an oversea tour in to-day's mailship. 1991 Flyer (BNC) Feb. The oversea navigation is by tracking the VOR needle and watching an almost indistinguishable horizon of sea and sky. 3. a. Situated in a country across the sea; abroad; = overseas adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adjective] > that is beyond the sea or ocean transmarine1583 transmaritime1610 transmarinal1614 oversea1645 ultramarine1652 trans-oceanic1827 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad althedyOE strange1297 foreigna1393 outward1427 extern1543 abroad1559 external1587 stranger1593 tramontane1596 oversea1645 transmontane1727 trans-oceanic1827 overseas1892 1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 6 The wife of youth, that..expects he [sc. her husband] shall return to her from over-sea lands. 1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 175 Our kintry sure is unco deitit, To be wi' owr-sea fock outwitit. 1909 T. W. Rolleston Sea Spray 12 Come with me, Etain, O come away, To that Oversea Land of mine! 1931 Times 17 Feb. 9/1 The competition of our rivals in the home and oversea markets. 1955 Times 1 July 8/5 The congress..has appointed five rapporteurs on..the French oversea territories. 1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 159 Schedule 8A continued to apply with certain modifications and exemptions to the accounts of oversea companies, that is companies incorporated outside Great Britain but having a place of business there. b. Relating to or concerned with countries across the sea; = overseas adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad > of or relating to a foreign land un-i-cundeeOE althedisheOE althedyOE elelendisha1000 fremda1000 outlandishOE strange1297 outenc1300 unkindc1300 outlandsc1330 foreign?1435 outland1488 peregrine1532 uncouth1533 forinsecal1539 exterior1540 extern1543 unnative1568 uplandish1586 external1587 tramontane1596 exotical1601 estranged1614 undenizened1635 extra-marine1639 outlanding1643 ultramarine1656 transmontane1727 forinsec service1728 foreigneering1806 trans-oceanic1827 vilayati1843 alienized1860 oversea1881 overwater1889 overseas1892 furrin1895 non-native1932 1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Knowsley 27 Oct. The questions of what I may call over-sea policy in Europe, Asia, and America. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxii. 168 The guest there, with his over-sea knowledge and experience. 1959 Times 30 July 6/6 (heading) Council formed for oversea research. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xiii. 139 The chain of command starts with the Cabinet's Defence and Oversea Policy Committee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). overseaadv. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈsiː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈsi/ Forms: see over prep. and sea n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: over prep., sea n. Etymology: < over prep. + sea n. Compare overseas adv. (see note below). Compare also oversea adj.This word is now less commonly used than overseas adv. 1. Across the sea; to a country across the sea; = overseas adv. 2. ΚΠ OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 957 On þam ylcan geare wæs Dunstan abbod adræfed ofer sæ. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1104 Se cyng his folc ofer sæ into Normandig sende. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) Leir..mid ane alpie swein..ouer sea [c1300 Otho ouer see] icomen. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 2646 (MED) Þe king of is men at helde woch he wolde & driue aȝen ouerse [v.r. ouer þe se] þulke þat he nolde. c1390 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 4257 Two men..wolde han passed ouer see For certeyn cause in to a fer contree. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 97 (MED) He went þerwith our se into a noder contre. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 115 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 544 (MED) The ship..is cleped an hors of tree..To leden men & carien ouer see. 1571 St. Trials, Duke Norfolk (R.) He had made show before, that he intended to go over sea. 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. i In Cornewall wee are all for wrastling, and I doe not meane to trauell ouer sea to roare there. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 63 And what though all this go not oversea? 'twere better it did. 1726 J. Barker Lining of Patch-work Screen 130 When he was landed in Flanders, he writ to me to Inform me he was got safe over Sea. 1781 H. Cowley Belle's Stratagem iii. i. 36 A better man than ever trod in your shoes is coming over sea to marry me. 1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell v. iii. 461 An English boat Had borne me oversea by secret night. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey iii Have you not come oversea in quest of your father? 1984 A. R. Burn Persia & Greeks (BNC) 327 But Xerxes would not have taken the whole army with him oversea. 2. On the other side of the sea; in a country across the sea, abroad; = overseas adv. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [adverb] > over sea over seaOE oversea?a1475 overseas1583 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to foreign land(s) beyond the seasc900 without1297 o brodea1400 on brodea1400 abroada1450 overseas1583 oversea1616 in foreigna1640 foreign1813 over sea1845 exterritorially1853 out foreign1895 ?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 485 Alle oþer castells and towres over see longynge to the crowne of Ynglonde. 1616 Sir G. Hay Let. in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) vii. 146 If he be not found there [i.e. at Court], it is likely that he pretended Court, and meant over-sea. a1626 N. Breton Toyes of Idle Head in Wks. (1879) 35 (title) A letter sent by a gentlewoman, in verse, to her husband, being ouer sea. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer i. 17 Great people over sea may write to our town's folks, because they have nothing else to do. 1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl II. v. 97 I wish the fingers of the sempstress over sea had been blistered ere they stitched that foul mantle. 1887 A. C. Swinburne Locrine v. ii. 128 For in my father's kingdom oversea. 1943 Times 18 Sept. 2/5 The latest dates of posting for correspondence intended for Christmas delivery at destinations oversea. 1991 D. Craig King Cameron (BNC) 107 The numbers of men who might be taken. The likelihood of their serving at home or oversea. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1509adv.OE
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