It's the Word of the Day podcast for June 5th.
Today's word is sea change, spelled as two words, S-E-A-C-H-A-N-G-E.
Sea change is a noun.
It refers to a big and sudden change or transformation.
Here's the word used in a sentence from lithub.com by Wendy Chen.
Over the course of my grandmother's lifetime,
gender expectations for women underwent a sea change.
My grandmother ended up pursuing an education and becoming a doctor,
leading an independent life that made her mother proud.
In The Tempest, Shakespeare's final play,
the term 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.
Dickens, Thoreau, and Woodhouse all used the term as an object of the verb suffer,