SEASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seaside mean? 

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

1. the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEASIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

seaboard; seaside

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

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

 Context examples 

"Send Beth and Mother to the seaside for a month or two," answered Jo promptly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When we came to our journey’s end, the king thought proper to pass a few days at a palace he has near Flanflasnic, a city within eighteen English miles of the seaside.

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

The new type of rice, successfully harvested by a group of scientists in the seaside city of Qingdao, eastern China, was revealed a year ago.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They had determined that their marriage ought to be concluded while John and Isabella were still at Hartfield, to allow them the fortnight's absence in a tour to the seaside, which was the plan.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To the seaside they went, after much discussion, and though Beth didn't come home as plump and rosy as could be desired, she was much better, while Mrs. March declared she felt ten years younger.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)