SEA-COAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea-coast mean? 

• SEA-COAST (noun)
  The noun SEA-COAST has 1 sense:

1. the shore of a sea or ocean

  Familiarity information: SEA-COAST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA-COAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shore of a sea or ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore

Hypernyms ("sea-coast" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "sea-coast"):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sea-coast"):

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)

 Context examples 

How they affected my aunt, nobody knew; for immediately upon the separation, she took her maiden name again, bought a cottage in a hamlet on the sea-coast a long way off, established herself there as a single woman with one servant, and was understood to live secluded, ever afterwards, in an inflexible retirement.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)