seashore
Americannoun
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seashores
plural
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land along the sea or ocean.
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Law. the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.
noun
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land bordering on the sea
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the land between the marks of high and low water
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of seashore
Explanation
The seashore is the land that borders an ocean or sea. She sells seashells on the seashore because that’s where the shells are, on the beach. Now say the whole thing three times fast. You can call the seashore the coast, the beach, or even just the shore. It's the area right next to the sea, and it can be rocky and dramatic or soft and sandy. Sometimes scientists use this word to mean the specific area that's covered with water at high tide but uncovered at low tide. This area is also known as the intertidal zone.
Example Sentences
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"One of the boats with the military personnel reached the seashore and tied a long rope to a tree. That rope was then brought to the boats," Mr Noor said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
The settlement, resolving a lawsuit filed in 2022, would pay most of the historic dairies and cattle ranches on the seashore to move out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
SNH has collected specimens of stranded whales in the seashore and river mouth in Hokkaido.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Mr. Dichter suggested that Gazans could be moved to an area to the west of Rafah along the seashore.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
So when, a day later, Dorothy told him that her family was heading to the seashore for a vacation, Palmer asked her to take Nipper along and release him there.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
Meanwhile, humans keep rebuilding beachfront houses on the same disaster-prone seashores year after year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
This larger-scale reaction mirrors the microdroplet chemistry and is also analogous to the well-studied wet-dry cycles that are suggested to occur in hydrothermal pools and seashores.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Illustrated with mouthwatering photos, most of them by local food photographer Charity Burggraaf, the book ambles season-by-season through the fields, forests, farmers markets and seashores of the Pacific Northwest, highlighting ingredients that inspire Wahlke.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
Our best guess at how much is trapped within roughly 150 kilometers of seashores worldwide is about one million cubic kilometers.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2023
This sedentary lifestyle was made possible by the diversity of resource-rich habitats available to Jomon people within a short distance of one central site: inland forests, rivers, seashores, bays, and open oceans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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