ashore

[ uh-shawr, uh-shohr ]

/ əˈʃɔr, əˈʃoʊr /

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adverb

to the shore; onto the shore: The schooner was driven ashore.

on the shore; on land rather than at sea or on the water: The captain has been ashore for two hours.

Nearby words

ashlar line, ashlaring, ashley, ashman, ashmolean museum, ashore, ashpit, ashplant, ashqelon, ashram, ashtabula

Origin of ashore

First recorded in 1580–90; a-¹ + shore¹

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Examples from the Web for ashore

Ashore the movie bogs down, but when Spielberg gets his camera out to sea all goes swimmingly.
Jaws’s Anniversary: Newsweek’s 1975 Review|Arthur Cooper|June 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Once ashore, Etooelle and I can set our little sail, and will run out to sea between the two islands.
The Wing-and-Wing|J. Fenimore Cooper
"All ashore who are going ashore," and we swung out into the easy current.
The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon|Wyn Roosevelt
Fulton and his lawyer, Emmet, had to walk over the ice to get ashore.
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240|Anonymous

The best that he could do was to have them put him ashore and in this way he came back to this fort.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898|E. H. Blair
I was anxious to get a photograph of him in his natural state and took him ashore ostensibly for a walk.
An African Adventure|Isaac F. Marcosson

British Dictionary definitions for ashore

ashore

/ (əˈʃɔː) /

adverb

towards or onto land from the waterwe swam ashore

adjective, adverb (postpositive)

on land, having come from the watera day ashore before sailing

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