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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-336/
- Published: 2025-07-09T18:15:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-09T18:15:30.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

sea change (noun):

1 *archaic* : a change brought about by the sea  
2: a marked change : transformation

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20change?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : In The Tempest, William Shakespeare’s final play, sea change refers to a change brought about by the sea: the sprite Ariel, who aims to make Ferdinand believe that his father the king has perished in a shipwreck, sings within earshot of the prince, “Full fathom five thy father lies...; / Nothing of him that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / into something rich and strange.” This is the original, now-archaic meaning of sea change. Today the term is used for a distinctive change or transformation. Long after sea change gained this figurative meaning, however, writers continued to allude to Shakespeare’s literal one; Charles Dickens, Henry David Thoreau, and P.G. Wodehouse all used the term as an object of the verb suffer, but now a sea change is just as likely to be undergone or experienced.

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