foreshore

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noun

The part of a shore between high water and low water.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

nounforeshore (plural foreshores)

plural foreshores

  1. 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 514
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    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 397

    Synonyms: 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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