Meanings
plural foreshores
- The part of a shore between high water and low water.
The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75.
1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 5141 more example
It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.
2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397Synonyms: intertidal zone
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe part of a shore between high water and low water.
Origin
Translations
French estran
- estranThe intertidal zone
Māori tuaone
- tuaoneThe intertidal zone
Portuguese zona entremarés, região entremarés
- zona entremarésThe intertidal zone
- região entremarésThe intertidal zone
- zona intertidalThe intertidal zone
Romanian avanplajă
- avanplajăThe intertidal zone
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foreshore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreshore
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