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COASTLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coastland mean?
• COASTLAND (noun)
The noun COASTLAND has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: COASTLAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Land in a coastal area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("coastland" is a kind of...):
ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))
Context examples
To Alleyne whose days had been spent in the low-lying coastland, the eager upland air and the wide free country-side gave a sense of life and of the joy of living which made his young blood tingle in his veins.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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