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seacoast

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sea·coast  (skst)
n.
Land bordering the sea.
seacoast [ˈsiːˌkəʊst]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) land bordering on the sea; a coast
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.seacoastseacoast - the shore of a sea or ocean          
coast, sea-coast, seashore
litoral, littoral, littoral zone, sands - the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
foreshore - the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark
landfall - the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
seaboard, seaside - the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort
shore - the land along the edge of a body of water
tideland - land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide


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Half the sky was chequered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear: in the lightning flashes it looked like deep blue water, with the sheen of moonlight on it; and the mottled part of the sky was like marble pavement, like the quay of some splendid seacoast city, doomed to destruction.
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The tribe to which he belonged roamed a tract extending, roughly, twenty-five miles along the seacoast and some fifty miles inland.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Each of us has formed a mental picture of the Capronian seacoast from Bowen's manuscript, and it is not likely that any two of these pictures resemble each other, or that any of them resemble the coast as we shall presently find it.
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