seaside
noun
the land along the sea; seacoast.
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seaside
1 American
[see-sahyd]
/ ˈsiˌsaɪd /
noun
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seasides
plural
adjective
Seaside
2
American
[see-sahyd]
/ ˈsiˌsaɪd /
noun
seaside
British
/ ˈsiːˌsaɪd /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of seaside
First recorded in 1175–1225, seaside is from the Middle English word seeside. See sea, side 1
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As Trudy approached this week, Trejo and his staff found themselves once again boarding up their seaside cafe — while bracing themselves for lost income and potential damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
“I’m nervous,” said Faith Woodland, a voter who attended a town hall event focused on abortion that Jackson’s campaign held in the seaside town of Bath.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
When Alma and Elisabet retreat to a seaside summer residence, presumably to facilitate the actress’s recovery, most viewers will assume that the matter will be clarified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Let's hope it doesn't hit so hard," Marta Maldonado, a 62-year-old waitress at a seaside restaurant with no protection, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Rooms were booked for us in a place called the Hotel Magnificent in the famous seaside town of Bournemouth.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
The suspiciously large breakfast bill recently led Seaside Police to crack an alleged embezzlement scandal involving the misuse of nearly $300,000 in public money, according to Police Chief Nick Borges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Inspectors red-tagged nine buildings along Seaside Walk, the Long Beach Post reported, with one building yellow-tagged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Long Beach’s mandatory order covers homes on Seaside Walk between 64th and 66th places.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
More than 800 residents are now part of a local "fly infestation" Facebook group, with people reporting issues in the Seaside, Morfa and Tyisha areas of the south-west Wales town.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Meanwhile, at the Seaside Sandman Motel, the original Duke was cowering in his crate.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
Wales’ dramatic mountains and seasides can stand in as fantastical locations, like in “House of the Dragon” or “His Dark Materials.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
There are no seasides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, making the beach a bright postcard fantasy of an ending that, while tragic, would have been a premeditated act, one final exertion of control.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2022
And like the gender-segregated seasides of the Victorian era, everyone, as far as the eye can see, is a woman.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016
When it wuz fashionable to go to springs and seasides she went and ocean trips and south and north, and when it wuz the fashion to go into the quiet country she come to Jonesville.
From Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley
I came," he says, "to swallow priceless ozone Under Britannia's elemental spell; She rules the waves, as all her conquered foes own; I wish she ruled her seasides half as well.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 by Various
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