coastline

English

Etymology

coast +‎ line

Noun

coastline (countable and uncountable, plural coastlines)

1. The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.

Translations

the shape of a coast

• Bulgarian: брегова́ ли́ния f (bregová línija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海岸線／海岸线 (zh) (hǎi'ànxiàn), 海岸线 (zh) (hǎi'ànxiàn)

• Danish: kystlinje (da) c
• Dutch: kustlijn (nl) c
• Esperanto: marbordo (eo)
• Finnish: rantaviiva (fi)
• French: rive (fr) f, littoral (fr) m
• German: Küstenlinie (de) f
• Japanese: 海岸線 (かいがんせん, kaigansen)
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• Maori: tahatika, tātika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kystlinje (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: kystline f, kystlinje f

• Papiamentu: kosta
• Portuguese: linha costeira f
• Romanian: coastă (ro) f, litoral (ro) n
• Russian: берегова́я ли́ния f (beregovája línija)
• Spanish: línea costera f
• Swedish: kustlinje c

Anagrams

• asolectin, laces into, sectional