seaside
noun
the land along the sea; seacoast.
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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of seaside
First recorded in 1175–1225, seaside is from the Middle English word seeside. See sea, side 1
Example Sentences
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Then over the weekend, the big one: up to seaside Newport, R.I., where he’ll be formally inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The head of the Catholic Church will then head to Rimini, a popular seaside city on the Adriatic, for the annual gathering of Communion and Liberation, a Christian group.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
People have been invited to "pay their respects" by lining roads in Newton and Mumbles, a seaside suburb of Swansea, while others began gathering outside her home in the morning.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Eastbourne is expected to get a bumper number of visitors this weekend when the seaside town hosts its popular Airbourne air show.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
That was our destination then, the federal penitentiary named after this seaside town.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"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
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
The author, who will also visit seaside towns across the country for the release of her children's book The Seaside Sleepover next month, told Mills she planned to go in and stroke the statue occasionally.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2025
Nick Borges, the police chief in the Monterey Bay town of Seaside and a true-crime buff, felt compelled to reach out to Huskins after watching the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Running down the wooden steps at Seaside, I see Ronan at the water’s edge.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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
Bridget had scoured and scrubbed and polished windows largely to pass away time, for the people next door had been away as well and the maids on a vacation earning money at seasides.
From A Modern Cinderella by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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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