seaboard
Americannoun
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the line where land and sea meet.
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a region bordering a seacoast.
the Eastern seaboard.
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of seaboard
1350–1400 for earlier sense “porthole cover”; 1480–90 in phrases at, on, to seaboard on the seaward side; 1815–25 seaboard for def. 1; Middle English seebord. See sea, starboard
Example Sentences
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I remember helping organize a food bank with several other pastors in the inner city on the Eastern seaboard.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
They are part of a government strategy that has seen much of the digital infrastructure for breakneck AI development across China's eastern seaboard established in the country's less populated, rural west.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Plumes of midges carrying the infection are thought to have travelled up the eastern Irish seaboard from England, where there have been almost 300 cases of the disease since July.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Early last week, Iran’s women’s soccer team stood on a field on Australia’s Gold Coast, a city on the country’s eastern seaboard, ready to play the first game in an international tournament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Even as it besieged Boston, the virus also spread down the eastern seaboard, laying waste as far as Georgia.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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