coastal

See also: Coastal

English

Etymology

From coast +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: coas‧tal
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊstəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊstəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊstəl

Adjective

coastal (comparative more coastal, superlative most coastal)

1. (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

   coastal town

   coastal breeze

   coastal elites

   • 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].

   • 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.

Hypernyms

• aquatic
• (sometimes) marine

Coordinate terms

• littoral

Derived terms

• bicoastal
• Coastal Andhra
• coastal grandma
• coastal grandmother
• coastally
• coastal strawberry
• coastal waters
• intercoastal
• intracoastal
• midcoastal
• noncoastal
• palaeocoastal
• subcoastal
• Suffolk Coastal
• tricoastal

Translations

relating to the coast

• Catalan: coster (ca), costaner (ca), costal (ca)
• Danish: kystnær
• French: côtier (fr)
• Galician: costeiro (gl) m
• Georgian: სანაპირო (sanaṗiro)
• German: Küsten- (de)
• Greek: παράκτιος (el) m (paráktios), παραλιακός (el) m (paraliakós)
• Hindi: तटीय (taṭīya)
• Hungarian: parti (hu)
• Italian: costiero (it), litoraneo (it), rivierasco
• Marathi: किनारी (kinārī), तटस्थ (mr) (taṭastha)
• Ngazidja Comorian: -a mpvwa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kystnær

  Nynorsk: kystnær

• Polish: przybrzeżny (pl)
• Portuguese: costeiro (pt)
• Romanian: costier (ro)
• Russian: берегово́й (ru) (beregovój), прибре́жный (ru) (pribréžnyj)
• Spanish: costero (es), costanero (es), costeño (es) (only for people)
• Swedish: kustnära (sv), kustsk
• Turkish: kıyısal, sahilsel
• Ukrainian: берегови́й (uk) (berehovýj), прибере́жний (pryberéžnyj)
• Welsh: arfordirol (cy)

Anagrams

• salacot