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Definition of Seacoast
1. Noun. The shore of a sea or ocean.
Specialized synonyms: Barbary Coast, Aeolia, Aeolis, Atlantic Coast, Gulf Coast, Pacific Coast
Specialized synonyms: Litoral, Littoral, Littoral Zone, Sands, Landfall, Seaboard, Seaside, Tideland
Terms within: Foreshore
Generic synonyms: Shore
Derivative terms: Coastal, Coastal
Definition of Seacoast
1. n. The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.
Definition of Seacoast
1. Noun. the coastal land bordering a sea or ocean ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seacoast
1. land bordering on the sea [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seacoast
Literary usage of Seacoast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ordnance and Gunnery: A Text-book Prepared for the Cadets of the United by Ormond Mitchell Lissak (1907)
"Other data concerning the seacoast guns will be found in the table on page 135.
seacoast Guns.—The seacoast guns and mortars are constructed as shown on ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1902)
"ELECTRICITY IN PERMANENT seacoast DEFENSES. BY MAJOR GEORGE W. GOETHALS, ...
Along our seacoast there are certain harbors from which, for strategic reasons, ..."
3. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1917)
"[The Use of Heavy Mobile Artillery in Conjunction with our seacoast Armament.
By ist Lieut. Meade Wildrick, С. А. С. Jour. ..."
4. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"available for use on the battle-front numerous guns from our seacoast fortifications
which could not have been used otherwise. ..."
5. The Army Behind the Army by Edward Alexander Powell (1919)
"available for ifse on the battle-front numerous guns THE ARMY BEHIND THE ARMY
from our seacoast fortifications which could not have been used otherwise. ..."
6. Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House by Walter Inglewood Smith (1906)
"Yes. It was changed at the last session. It used to read " seacoast ... But as
it now reads " seacoast cannon," it would comprise rapid-fire guns, ..."
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