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coastline

[ kohst-lahyn ]

noun

  1. the outline or contour of a coast; shoreline.
  2. the land and water lying adjacent to a shoreline.


coastline

/ ˈkəʊstˌlaɪn /

noun

  1. the outline of a coast, esp when seen from the sea, or the land adjacent to it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coastline1

First recorded in 1855–60; coast + line 1
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Example Sentences

Next, head to the beaches of Assateague Island National Seashore, a 40-mile stretch of coastline across Maryland and Virginia.

In addition, the sandbags have blocked public shorelines, created eyesores along picturesque coastlines and littered beaches with heavy fabric and rope that gets torn and whipped around by waves.

Adaptation are things we do to prepare and prevent the damage already done by climate change, like building a sea wall to prevent higher ocean waves from slamming into a coastline.

Young noted that much of the coastline was already armored, and he urged the board to allow Hanzawa to seek permission from the county to keep the seawalls.

On top of that is a layer of much younger sandstone, a porous sedimentary rock and remnant of an ancient coastline.

It also theoretically moves the ancient coastline more than two miles from where historians originally placed it.

Although it took 21 years after Peter ran away at the battle of Narva, Russia finally got a Baltic coastline.

A drive to the Snæfellsnes peninsula—seriously, these names—is a veritable coastline journey to the center of the Earth.

And an unnamed vessel that hit the brutal coastline in 1860 has a particularly dark story.

Its beautiful landscape and coastline are matched only by its fascinating history.

The War Office forget every now and then other things about the coastline above the Narrows.

To the east there was a precipitous coastline of dark rock which for a while we thought of visiting.

The irregularities in the coastline account for this; the wind tending to flow down to sea-level by the nearest route.

July and August are cold and foggy along the coastline, with strong west winds almost every day.

Our object was to map in the coastline as far east as possible, and the problem, now, was whether to go north or south.

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