seacoast

English

Etymology

From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea +‎ coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).

Noun

seacoast (plural seacoasts)

1. The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.
   • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:

     Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.

Synonyms

• seashore
• coast

Translations

coastal land bordering a sea or ocean

• Esperanto: marbordo (eo)