seacoast

noun

sea·​coast ˈsē-ˌkōst How to pronounce seacoast (audio)
: the shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea

Examples of seacoast in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Shikoku presents another Japan of pristine landscapes, pilgrimage temples, fishing villages, rugged seacoasts, forested hills and country kindness. Roger Sands, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 Mike McCormack lives in Galway, Ireland, on a seacoast facing the Atlantic with rocky, unforgiving cliffs that give way to thin, hardpan soil. Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024 The failure of that withdrawal to secure any sort of lasting peace agreement has left Gaza a kind of orphan, largely cut off from other Palestinians in the West Bank and almost entirely isolated by both Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza’s borders and its seacoast. Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023 Settle in for the night in a 1870's farmhouse, the Little River Bed & Breakfast, along the Nubanusit Brook. 07 Portsmouth See the warm colors of the changing leaves on the country's smallest seacoast. Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023 With no seacoast, the foliage starts appearing by the middle of September in the highest elevations and is already peaking before month’s end. Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023 The months ahead will be busy; Murphy said Hampton Beach alone can receive over 100,000 people per day, and anywhere from 6 million to 8 million people will visit New Hampshire’s seacoast this summer. Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023 The remaining 20,000 men will aid the artillery detachments in guarding the seacoast and manning the heavy guns of our coast defense. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023 In the purplish state of New Hampshire, where Rochester sits between the liberal southern seacoast and the more conservative Lakes Region at its center, the tie only confirmed what people already knew: Their city of 30,000, like their country, is politically split. Jenna Russell, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of seacoast was in the 14th century

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“Seacoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seacoast. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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seacoast

noun
sea·​coast ˈsē-ˌkōst How to pronounce seacoast (audio)
: the shore of the sea

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