seashore
Americannoun
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land along the sea or ocean.
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Law. the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks.
noun
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land bordering on the sea
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the land between the marks of high and low water
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of seashore
Explanation
The seashore is the land that borders an ocean or sea. She sells seashells on the seashore because that’s where the shells are, on the beach. Now say the whole thing three times fast. You can call the seashore the coast, the beach, or even just the shore. It's the area right next to the sea, and it can be rocky and dramatic or soft and sandy. Sometimes scientists use this word to mean the specific area that's covered with water at high tide but uncovered at low tide. This area is also known as the intertidal zone.
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"One of the boats with the military personnel reached the seashore and tied a long rope to a tree. That rope was then brought to the boats," Mr Noor said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
“The national seashore, from an ecological standpoint, was a train wreck,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Looking to nature for inspiration, the McGill-led research zeroed in on the marine mussel byssus, a fibrous holdfast, which these bivalve mollusks use to anchor themselves in seashore habitats.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
On a sprawling Martha’s Vineyard estate not far from the seashore, Deici Cauro adjusted a baseball cap to keep the burning sun at bay.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I had left the seashore and was in the Great West when my father finally came home in the late afternoon.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Meanwhile, humans keep rebuilding beachfront houses on the same disaster-prone seashores year after year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The outer islands are steadily depopulating, as the appeal of making a life through tuna fishing and coconut farming along their crushed-coral seashores shrinks.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024
This larger-scale reaction mirrors the microdroplet chemistry and is also analogous to the well-studied wet-dry cycles that are suggested to occur in hydrothermal pools and seashores.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Our best guess at how much is trapped within roughly 150 kilometers of seashores worldwide is about one million cubic kilometers.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2023
There were two or three stampeding stallions, manes flaring, next to stormy seashores in her bedroom.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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