SEASHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seashore mean? 

• SEASHORE (noun)
  The noun SEASHORE has 1 sense:

1. the shore of a sea or ocean

  Familiarity information: SEASHORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEASHORE (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 ("seashore" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "seashore"):

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

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

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 

The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The fisherman did not much like the business: however, he went to the seashore; and when he came back there the water looked all yellow and green.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Another little visit to the seashore would suit her better, and as Grandma could not be prevailed upon to leave the babies, Jo took Beth down to the quiet place, where she could live much in the open air, and let the fresh sea breezes blow a little color into her pale cheeks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all simples, of birds, and of precious stones.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He soon came to the seashore; and the water was quite black and muddy, and a mighty whirlwind blew over the waves and rolled them about, but he went as near as he could to the water’s brink.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)