coastline

[ kohst-lahyn ]
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noun
  1. the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.

  2. the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.

Origin of coastline

1
First recorded in 1855–60; coast + line1

Words Nearby coastline

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How to use coastline in a sentence

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

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

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • The irregularities in the coastline account for this; the wind tending to flow down to sea-level by the nearest route.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • July and August are cold and foggy along the coastline, with strong west winds almost every day.

    Stories of California | Ella M. Sexton
  • Our object was to map in the coastline as far east as possible, and the problem, now, was whether to go north or south.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

British Dictionary definitions for coastline

coastline

/ (ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn) /


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

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