Word Meanings - SEACOAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEACOAST)

• Beach
• Shore
• coast
• strand
• seacoast
• seaboard
• seashore

Related words: (words related to SEACOAST)

• SHORER
  One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
• SHOREWARD
  Toward the shore.
• SEASHORE
  All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks. (more info) 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
• BEACHY
  Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• BEACH
  1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle. 2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea , the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ,
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• SEACOAST
  The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• BEACHED
  1. Bordered by a beach. The beached verge of the salt flood. Shak. 2. Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach; as, the ship is beached.
• STRAND
  One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
• BEACH COMBER
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• SHORELESS
  Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• SEABOARD
  The seashore; seacoast. Ld. Berners.
• SHORELING
  See SHORLING
• SHORE
  A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath (more info) schoore, Icel. skor, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• ROLLER COASTER
  An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
• LONGSHOREMAN
  One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
• OFFSHORE
  From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.