Meaning

1 senses

  1. The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.

    the shore of a sea or ocean

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tom and Mary drove along the seacoast.

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  2. The navy defends our seacoast.

    ruФлот охраняет наши берега.

    deDie Marine verteidigt unsere Küste.

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Origin

From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare Wes

From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).

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Forms

plural: seacoasts
Singularseacoast
Pluralseacoasts

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
coastA2seashore
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
seaA1seabedseabirdseaboardseafoodA2seafrontseagull
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