alta mar

Spanish

Alternative forms

• altamar

Etymology

Literally, “high sea”.

Noun

alta mar f (uncountable)

1. open sea, high seas (regions of ocean far from shore)

Further reading

• “alta mar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10