The Seven Seas
The term "the seven seas" does not refer to a specific set of bodies of water in the way that other numbered lists do. Instead, it is used in a figurative way to indicate all of the large bodies of water on Earth.
How It's Used
“To have you with me, I would swim the sevens seas,
To have you as my guide and my light.
My love is a flame that burns in your name.
We'll be together, We'll be together tonight.” —Sting, “We’ll Be Together” (1987) “With ships, weaponry and a willingness to use them both, the countries of Europe were about to colonise the rest of the world. To support this expansion, its merchant classes would invent new forms of commercial credit and the first great corporations, vital parts of capitalism’s operating system, and spread their trading networks across the seven seas.” —no author listed, “The Spice Trade: A taste of adventure: The history of spices is the history of trade,” The Economist, December 19, 1998, p. 51. “Treasure beyond the wildest dreams of Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Jean Lafitte or any other brigand who ever sailed the seven seas continued to swell the coffers of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End' on its second weekend in North American theaters.” —Lawrence Van Gelder, “Arts, Briefly,” The New York Times, June 4, 2007. Links Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the Seven Seas
The Straight Dope article on "What Are the 'Seven Seas'?"
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