Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Land by the sea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
- noun In law, the ground between the ordinary high-water mark and low-water mark.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
- noun (Law) All the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
coastal land bordering asea or anocean . - noun The
foreshore , the strip of land betweenlow water andhigh water .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the shore of a sea or ocean
Etymologies
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Examples
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She admitted, herself, that she'd probably have a good time, as she always did everywhere, but still her heart clung to "The Pebbles," as they called their seashore home, and she silently rebelled when she thought of "Camilla," her swift little electric runabout.
Patty's Butterfly Days Carolyn Wells 1902
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A newspaper is better than a magazine, and on the seashore is a better place than a street.
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And Gerry ` s left it with the motif of the boats and the seashore, which is what they planned to do for Conner.
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And Gerry ` s left it with the motif of the boats and the seashore, which is what they planned to do for Conner.
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To hold a convention at the seashore was a lure to clubwomen and therefore a large number gathered at the Oceanic Hotel, on Wrightsville Beach, June 7, 1921, to attend the Nineteenth Convention of the North Carolina Federation.
History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs 1901-1925 Sallie Southall Cotten 1925
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This region consists of the Altipiano or Abruzzo-Aquilano, along the seashore, which is divided into Abruzzo Teramano and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Buffalo is a large village of a quarter of a million inhabitants, situated on the seashore, which is falsely called Lake Erie.
American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900
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My life at the seashore was a tranquil and uneventful one, although while I was there a circumstance transpired pf grave importance to my people.
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Buffalo is a large village of a quarter of a million inhabitants, situated on the seashore, which is falsely called Lake Erie.
American Notes 1889
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The upper one is visible from the road on the seashore, which is more than two miles distant, and, judging from information obtained, must be between two and three hundred feet high.
bilby commented on the word seashore
"No wonder that the mystics, sages and prophets of all ages sought refuge in nature from all the disturbing influences of daily life. They considered the caves of the mountains to be better than palaces. They enjoyed the shelter under a tree more than beautiful houses. They liked looking at the running water better than watching the passing crowds. They preferred the seashores to the great cities."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan.
October 6, 2008