Seashore
['siːʃɔː(r)] or ['siʃɔr]
Definition
(n.) The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
(n.) All the ground between the ordinary highwater and low-water marks.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- The Kings are off to the seashore tomorrow, and I'm free. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It may be necessary to have dykes on portions of the seashore; they may be superfluous elsewhere. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Echoes from those past times when they had exchanged tender words all the day long came like the diffused murmur of a seashore left miles behind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I am convinced that, at the worst, he would have returned from the seashore to take leave of us, and to make us the partners of his council. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Jonathan