seachange
sea·change
seachange · seachanges
A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areasA movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.
/ˈsiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
Meaning
2 senses(Australia, uncountable)A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.
(Australia, countable)An act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community.
Origin
From sea + change; sense 1 (“movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas; act ofFrom sea + change; sense 1 (“movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas; act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community”) was possibly coined by the Australian author and demographer Bernard Salt in his book The Big Shift (2001), based on the title of the Australian television series SeaChange (1998–2000 and 2019) about a lawyer who moved with her daughters from the city to a coastal town.
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Forms
plural: seachanges| Singular | seachange |
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Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable