sea-coastn.
1. The land adjacent to the sea; = coast n. 4.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]
sea-warthc888
sea-rimOE
sea-strandc1000
sandc1275
rive1296
bankc1350
sea-banka1375
sea-coasta1400
coastc1400
warthc1450
ripec1475
landsidec1515
seashore1526
banksidec1540
brinish brink1594
shorea1616
ore1652
outland1698
sea beach1742
table-shore1849
playa1898
treaty coast1899
treaty shore1901
beach1903
a1400 Coer de L. 4782 Kyng Richard and Phelyp, with her hoost; Wente foorth be the see-coost.
a1451 J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) 551 The coost of France is no longer by the narow see coost than from Calyce in Pycardy unto Seynt Malous in Bretany.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X4v Those white rocks..Which all along the Southerne sea-coast lay, Threatning vnheedy wrecke.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vii. §5. 83 All the Sea-coast..[was] exposed to the waste of an enemie too farre ouer-matching him.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 164 To defend the sea-coasts of his own dominions.
1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 336 Prussia..has a considerable range of sea-coast.
1876 A. S. Murray Mythol. (1877) iii. 38 The Sirens are strictly personifications, not of the sea, but of the dangers of the sea-coast to sailors.
2. attributive or adj.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > situated on
seasidec1275
sea-coasting1610
sea-coast1622
paralious1655
coasterly1709
longshore1776
shore-going1846
mid-coast1898
juxta-marine1899
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 146 The Sea-coast Townes of France.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 119 So that I fancy'd now I had my Country-House, and my Sea-Coast-House.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. at Lavatera L. arborea..being a common plant in sea-coast cottage gardens.
Derivatives
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society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [noun] > cause of shipwreck > one who causes shipwreck
sea-coasterc1550
moon-curser1807
wrecker1820
c1550 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1902) 16 83 [To assist ship-owners against pillage by the] sea-coasters.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adjective] > situated on
seasidec1275
sea-coasting1610
sea-coast1622
paralious1655
coasterly1709
longshore1776
shore-going1846
mid-coast1898
juxta-marine1899
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xviii. ii. 657 But their opinion that make Aegialia to be a sea-coasting citty is better.
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