SEACOAST

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The shore of a sea or ocean

Synonyms:

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("seacoast" is a kind of...):

shore (the land along the edge of a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "seacoast"):

foreshore (the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seacoast"):

litoral; littoral; littoral zone; sands (the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean)

landfall (the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water))

seaboard; seaside (the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort)

tideland (land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide)

Instance hyponyms:

Barbary Coast (the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates)

Aeolia; Aeolis (an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC)

Atlantic Coast (a coast of the Atlantic Ocean)

Gulf Coast (a seashore of the Gulf of Mexico)

Pacific Coast (a coast of the Pacific Ocean)