coastline

[ kohst-lahyn ]

noun

1. the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.
2. the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.

coastline

/ ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn /

noun

1. the outline of a coast, esp when seen from the sea, or the land adjacent to it

Word History and Origins

Origin of coastline¹

First recorded in 1855–60; coast + line ¹

Example Sentences

Next, head to the beaches of Assateague Island National Seashore, a 40-mile stretch of coastline across Maryland and Virginia.

From Outside Online

In addition, the sandbags have blocked public shorelines, created eyesores along picturesque coastlines and littered beaches with heavy fabric and rope that gets torn and whipped around by waves.

From ProPublica

Adaptation are things we do to prepare and prevent the damage already done by climate change, like building a sea wall to prevent higher ocean waves from slamming into a coastline.

From Voice of San Diego

Young noted that much of the coastline was already armored, and he urged the board to allow Hanzawa to seek permission from the county to keep the seawalls.

From ProPublica

On top of that is a layer of much younger sandstone, a porous sedimentary rock and remnant of an ancient coastline.

From Voice of San Diego

It also theoretically moves the ancient coastline more than two miles from where historians originally placed it.

From The Daily Beast

Although it took 21 years after Peter ran away at the battle of Narva, Russia finally got a Baltic coastline.

From The Daily Beast

A drive to the Snæfellsnes peninsula—seriously, these names—is a veritable coastline journey to the center of the Earth.

From The Daily Beast

And an unnamed vessel that hit the brutal coastline in 1860 has a particularly dark story.

From The Daily Beast

Its beautiful landscape and coastline are matched only by its fascinating history.

From The Daily Beast

The War Office forget every now and then other things about the coastline above the Narrows.

From Project Gutenberg

To the east there was a precipitous coastline of dark rock which for a while we thought of visiting.

From Project Gutenberg

The irregularities in the coastline account for this; the wind tending to flow down to sea-level by the nearest route.

From Project Gutenberg

July and August are cold and foggy along the coastline, with strong west winds almost every day.

From Project Gutenberg

Our object was to map in the coastline as far east as possible, and the problem, now, was whether to go north or south.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bank
• beach
• seaboard
• shore
• shoreline