"seacoast" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: shore - the land along the edge of a body of water
subtypes:
- litoral, littoral, littoral zone, sands - the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
- 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
- tideland - land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide
specific instances:
- barbary coast - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
- aeolia, aeolis - an ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC
- atlantic coast - a coast of the Atlantic Ocean
- gulf coast - a seashore of the Gulf of Mexico
- pacific coast - a coast of the Pacific Ocean
has: foreshore - the part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark

same as: coast, sea-coast, seashore