ASHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ashore mean? 

• ASHORE (adverb)
  The adverb ASHORE has 1 sense:

1. towards the shore from the water

  Familiarity information: ASHORE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASHORE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Towards the shore from the water

Context example:

we invited them ashore

 Context examples 

Put 'em ashore like maroons? That would have been England's way.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The young man sat safe within, till at length it ran ashore upon an unknown land.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Upon the 9th day of May, 1711, one James Welch came down to my cabin, and said, “he had orders from the captain to set me ashore.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He would have to go ashore.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The poor devil has certainly got himself into very deep water, and it’s a question whether we shall ever be able to get him ashore.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next day, and the next, we saw the galley smoke rising, and sometimes we caught glimpses of him on the poop. But that was all. He made no attempt to come ashore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were unable to classify it, and, being scientific men, they climbed into the whale-boat alongside and went ashore to see.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I have had to engage his forts, to take my men ashore, and to destroy his guns and his signal stations.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There flies the prince's banner, and it would be well that we haste ashore and pay our obeisance to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore—and fallen darkly upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)