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sea·board

(sē′bôrd′)

1. A seacoast.

2. Land near the sea.

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seaboard

(ˈsiːˌbɔːd)

(Physical Geography)

a. land bordering on the sea; the seashore

b. (as modifier): seaboard towns.

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sea•board

(ˈsiˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd)

n.

1. the line where land and sea meet.

2. a region bordering a seacoast: the eastern seaboard.

adj.

3. bordering on the sea.

[1780–90]

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Noun

seaboard - the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort

seaside

coast, seacoast, sea-coast, seashore - the shore of a sea or ocean

Translations

ساحِل

pobřeží

kyst

strandlengja

seaboard

[ˈsiːbɔːd] N (US) → litoral m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seaboard

[ˈsiːbɔː^rd] n → côte f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seaboard

[ˈsiːˌbɔːd] n → litorale m

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sea

(siː) noun

1. (often with the) the mass of salt water covering most of the Earth's surface. I enjoy swimming in the sea; over land and sea; The sea is very deep here; (also adjective) A whale is a type of large sea animal.

2. a particular area of sea. the Baltic Sea; These fish are found in tropical seas.

3. a particular state of the sea. mountainous seas.

ˈseaward(s) adverb

towards the sea; away from the land. The yacht left the harbour and sailed seawards.

ˈseaboard noun

the seacoast. the eastern seaboard of the United States.

sea breeze

a breeze blowing from the sea towards the land.

ˈseafaring adjective

of work or travel on ships. a seafaring man.

ˈseafood noun

fish, especially shellfish.

adjective

seafood restaurants.

ˈseafront noun

a promenade or part of a town with its buildings facing the sea.

ˈsea-going adjective

designed and equipped for travelling on the sea. a sea-going yacht.

ˈseagull noun

a gull.

sea level

the level of the surface of the sea used as a base from which the height of land can be measured. three hundred metres above sea level.

ˈsea-lion noun

a type of large seal.

ˈseaman – plural ˈseamen – noun

a sailor, especially a member of a ship's crew who is not an officer.

ˈseaport noun

a port on the coast.

ˈseashell noun

the (empty) shell of a sea creature.

ˈseashore noun

the land close to the sea.

ˈseasick adjective

ill because of the motion of a ship at sea. Were you seasick on the voyage?

ˈseasickness noun

ˈseaside noun

(usually with the) a place beside the sea. We like to go to the seaside in the summer.

ˈseaweed noun

plants growing in the sea. The beach was covered with seaweed.

ˈseaworthy adjective

(negative unseaworthy) (of a ship) suitably built and in good enough condition to sail at sea.

ˈseaworthiness noun

at sea

1. on a ship and away from land. He has been at sea for four months.

2. puzzled or bewildered. Can I help you? You seem all at sea.

go to sea

to become a sailor. He wants to go to sea.

put to sea

to leave the land or a port. They planned to put to sea the next day.

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Any one possessing a mile or two of secluded seaboard, cut off on the land side by precipitous approaches, and including a sheltered river mouth ingeniously hidden by nature, in the form of a jutting wall of rock, from the sea, might have made as good use of these natural opportunities as the nobleman in question, had they only been as wise and as rich.

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Arrived at the station which is in daily communication, by numerous trains, with the Atlantic seaboard!

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He is the war-lord who sends his battalions of Atlantic rollers to the assault of our seaboard. The compelling voice of the West Wind musters up to his service all the might of the ocean.

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She carried an assortment of merchandise for trading with the natives of the seaboard and of the interior, together with the frame of a schooner, to be employed in the coasting trade.

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The Americans had indeed grown so accustomed to the idea that Great Britain could be trusted to keep the peace of the Atlantic that a naval attack on the eastern seaboard found them unprepared even in their imaginations.

The Americans had strung out in the modern fashion at distances of thirty miles or so, and were steaming to keep themselves between the Germans and either the eastern states or Panama; because, vital as it was to defend the seaboard cities and particularly New York, it was still more vital to save the canal from any attack that might prevent the return of the main fleet from the Pacific.

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If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snowshoes, and, with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.

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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dropped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

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In the late fall of that year Emil Gluck made a clean sweep of the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida.

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Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin game them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the werewolves themselves had come.

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So Harvey came back to East Gloucester, and spent half a day explaining to an amused actress with a royal reputation on two seaboards the inwardness of the mistake she contemplated; and she admitted that it was justice, even as Disko had said.

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PAGASA warned those with small sea vessels not to venture out over the western seaboards of Northern Luzon and Central Luzon, the seaboards of Southern Luzon and Visayas, and the eastern seaboard of Mindanao due to "potentially rough sea condition.