seaside
noun
the land along the sea; seacoast.
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seaside
1 American
[see-sahyd]
/ ˈsiˌsaɪd /
noun
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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The plan was for a multiday celebration in Carmel, a seaside town in Northern California, with the ceremony at a Tuscan-style villa and the send-off at a spa in the forest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Eventually Kiki ends up in a bustling seaside city that hasn’t had a witch in its midst in many years.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Go Gentle, “Almost Life,” “New Skin” and “The Summer Boy” are just a few of our summer book picks filled with secrets, scandals and seaside romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But in France, Marielle Mourgeon was among 4,000 people forced to cut holidays short in the seaside village of Lacanau, near Bordeaux, after authorities ordered camping sites evacuates as a precaution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The man had been paid by a kindly monk in the city of Songdo to bring Tree-ear to the little seaside village of Ch’ulp’o.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
"Last week we were having to put beer mats over our coffee cups to keep the flies out," said Cheryl, who runs the Seaside Sports and Social Club.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
But with Rowntree having just released a photo book capturing the band's early days - and Seaside Tour venues such as the Ocean Room and Clacton's Oscar's now closed, there are plenty of people reminiscing.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
Seaside and coastal towns often have older populations with more complex health needs, while at the same time local NHS services can suffer from recruitment problems, leaving staffing gaps where they are needed most.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
He invited Huskins and Quinn to speak to law enforcement in Seaside to share their belief that police interrogation methods that focused on Quinn’s guilt had sent the investigation down the wrong road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
“I’m pretty sure that Tater, Duke, and the other dogs are being held hostage at the Seaside Sandman Motel.”
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
During the sweltering summer of that year, the Times' people carried to shady groves and seasides tens of thousands of children who, for the first time, saw running streams and green fields.
From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill
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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