Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide);
used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sea level \Sea" lev"el\
The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same
level with the sea.
[1913 Webster] Sealgh
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sea level
n 1: level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway
between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in
reckoning land elevation or sea depth