seacoast

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seacoast

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From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).

noun seacoasts

  1. The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean. Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.

    Similar: seashore, coast

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@misc{seacoast_2026,
  title = {seacoast},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/seacoast},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}