seacoast

noun

seacoast

noun

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

The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.

Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:

Synonyms: seashore, coast

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