seashore

English

Alternative forms

• sea-shore (archaic)

Etymology

From sea +‎ shore.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sēʹshô, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: sēʹshôr, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sēʹshōr, IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʃo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) 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

• Arabic: سَاحِل (ar) m (sāḥil), شَاطِئ (ar) m (šāṭiʔ)
• Armenian: ծովափ (hy) (covapʻ), ծովեզերք (hy) (covezerkʻ)
• Bulgarian: крайбрежие (bg) n (krajbrežie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海岸 (zh) (hǎi'àn), 海濱／海滨 (zh) (hǎibīn)

• Cornish: treth m
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Georgian: სანაპირო (sanaṗiro), ზღვის სანაპირო (zɣvis sanaṗiro)
• German: Meeresküste (de) f, Seeküste f, Küste (de) f, Meeresufer (de) n, Meeresstrand (de) m
• Greek: αιγιαλός (el) m (aigialós), ακτή (el) f (aktí), παράκτιος (el) m (paráktios)

  Ancient: παράλιος f (parálios)

• Haitian Creole: bo lanmè
• Hungarian: tengerpart (hu)
• Ilocano: igid ti baybay
• Inari Sami: merâriddo
• Ingrian: merenranta
• Interlingua: costa, litore
• Iranun: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 海岸 (ja) (かいがん, kaigan), 海浜 (ja) (かいひん, kaihin)
• Korean: 바닷가 (ko) (badatga), 해변(海邊) (ko) (haebyeon), 해안(海岸) (ko) (haean)
• Latin: lītus (la) n, acta (la) f
• Latvian: jūrmala f
• Maguindanao: dedsaan
• Malay: tepi (ms) pantai (ms)
• Malayalam: കടൽത്തീരം (ml) (kaṭalttīraṁ)
• Maori: tahatai, tātahi
• Maranao: iratan
• Minangkabau: pasisia (min)
• Old English: sǣrima m
• Portuguese: beira-mar (pt) m
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: побере́жье (ru) n (poberéžʹje), примо́рье (ru) n (primórʹje), бе́рег мо́ря m (béreg mórja)
• Slovene: morska obala f, plaža (sl) f
• Southern Kalinga: tarantag
• Southern Ohlone: kaw
• Spanish: litoral (es), costa (es)
• Swedish: havskust (sv) 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)
• Vietnamese: bờ biển

foreshore — see foreshore

Anagrams

• seahorse, sea-horse, sea horse