seashore

English

Etymology

sea +‎ shore

Pronunciation

• enPR: sēʹshô, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃɔː/
• enPR: sēʹshôr, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃɔɹ/
• enPR: sēʹshōr, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃo(ː)ɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃoə/

Noun

seashore (plural seashores)

1. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
2. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.

Synonyms

• (land bordering the sea): seacoast, sea marge
• (strip between high and low water marks): foreshore, intertidal zone, littoral

Hypernyms

• (land bordering the sea): shore, coast, strand

Translations

the coastal land bordering a sea or ocean

• Armenian: ծովափ (hy) (covapʻ), ծովեզերք (hy) (covezerkʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海岸 (zh) (hǎi'àn)

• Eastern Bontoc: penget chi fiayfiay, olet chi fiayfiay
• Faroese: strond f
• Finnish: merenranta, rannikko (fi)
• French: rivage (fr) m, rive (fr) f, bord de mer m
• Galician: beiramar f
• German: Meeresküste f, Seeküste f, Küste (de) f, Meeresufer (de) n, Meeresstrand m
• Greek: αιγιαλός (el) m (aigialós)

  Ancient: παράλιος f (parálios)

• Haitian Creole: bo lanmè
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• Hungarian: tengerpart (hu)
• Ilocano: igid ti baybay
• Inari Sami: merâriddo
• Latin: lītus (la) n
• Latvian: jūrmala f
• Slovene: morska obala f, plaža (sl) f
• Southern Kalinga: tarantag
• Southern Ohlone: kaw
• Spanish: litoral, costa (es)
• Swedish: havskust c
• Tagalog: dalampasigan (tl), baybayin (tl), tabing-dagat
• Telugu: సముద్రతీరము (te) (samudratīramu)
• Turkish: deniz kıyısı
• Ukrainian: берег моря (bereh morja), морське́ побере́жжя n (morsʹké poberéžžja), морське́ узбере́жжя n (morsʹké uzberéžžja)

foreshore — see foreshore

Anagrams

• sea horse, seahorse