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Definition of Seashore

1. Noun. The shore of a sea or ocean.

Definition of Seashore

1. n. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.

Definition of Seashore

1. Noun. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean. ¹

2. Noun. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seashore

1. land bordering on the sea [n -S]

Medical Definition of Seashore

1. Carl E., U.S. Psychologist, 1866-1949. See: Seashore test. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seashore

Literary usage of Seashore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"The use of the term "seashore" as a boundary of land is to be construed as fixing the ... The term "seashore" extends as far toward the land as the tide ..."

2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests by Guy Montrose Whipple (1910)
"(3) Seashore found no obvious sex differences in the discrimination of pitch. ... but their results are less reliable than those of Seashore. ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"He "held the seashores as I or with the seashore becoming such perma- The law of public waters is presumably uniform, and on many questions it is not ..."

4. Sermons by Phillips Brooks (1903)
"THE EGYPTIANS DEAD UPON THE Seashore. " And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." —EXODUS xiv. 30. IT was the Red sea which the children of ..."

5. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: In Two Parts : a Book of Directions by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE CAPACITY TO DISCRIMINATE PITCH (Seashore). TABLE 28 Pitch Discrimination of 167 Children, Aged 6-15 Years (Seashore) ..."

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