WEST COAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Coast mean? 

• WEST COAST (noun)
  The noun WEST COAST has 1 sense:

1. the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST COAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("West Coast" is a part of...):

West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)

 Context examples 

There's a strong current runs along the south, and then away nor'ard up the west coast.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It can grow so large that it blankets the surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

They were found in the Atacama Trench off the west coast of Chile and Peru at a depth of nearly 8,000 meters.

(Three New Species of Fish Found at Bottom of Pacific Ocean, VOA)

My father and mother were Danes, and how they ever came to that bleak bight of land on the west coast I do not know. I never heard.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The largest harmful algae bloom ever recorded happened in the summer of 2015 off the West Coast of North America from Alaska to California, and resulted in the closure of fisheries to protect consumers from potential shellfish poisoning.

(Scientists discover genetic basis for how harmful algae blooms become toxic, National Science Foundation)

The increasing load of carbon dioxide in the ocean interior is already having an impact on the shellfish industry, particularly along the U.S. West Coast, said Richard Feely of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, leader of NOAA’s West Coast acidification observing network and a co-author of the study.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)

Two caves — the Grotta del Fossellone and Grotta di Sant'Agostino — near the beaches of what is now Italy's west coast are producing some of the earliest evidence of ancient humans using adhesive on their stone tools, an important technological advance called hafting.

(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)

And although this were little better than conjecture, yet I resolved to steer my course eastward, hoping to reach the south-west coast of New Holland, and perhaps some such island as I desired lying westward of it.

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

During the eclipse on August 21, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, completely blocking the face of the sun and darkening skies all the way from Oregon on the West Coast to South Carolina on the East Coast.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)