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beachcomber

US/ˈbit͡ʃˌkoʊmɚ/

beachcomber noun: a seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.

Noun

beachcomber (plural beachcombers)

  1. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
    • The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 46”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
  2. Any loafer around a waterfront.
  3. A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
    • Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come and break her up for the sake of her timber and old iron.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 35
  4. A long rolling wave of the sea.

Proper noun capitalized: Beachcomber

Beachcomber

  1. A retreat in Smiths Bay, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia.
  2. A private island, one of the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji.

beachcomber meaning in Malayalam

beachcomber in Malayalam

forager, scavenger, collector
കാലാപെറുക്കി, കുപ്പ പെറുക്കി ജീവിക്കുന്നവൻ, ചപ്പുപെറുക്കി, ചപ്പുചവറുകൾ പെറുക്കുന്നവൻ, വാർത്താവഹൻ, ആക്രിവ്യാപാരി

Forms of beachcomber

pluralbeachcombers
alternative formbeach-comber

Origin of beachcomber

From beach + comber.

Questions about beachcomber

What does beachcomber mean?
Beachcomber means a seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
What is beachcomber in Malayalam?
Beachcomber in Malayalam is കാലാപെറുക്കി, കുപ്പ പെറുക്കി ജീവിക്കുന്നവൻ, ചപ്പുപെറുക്കി. See Beachcomber meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is beachcomber?
Beachcomber can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce beachcomber?
Beachcomber is pronounced /ˈbit͡ʃˌkoʊmɚ/ (US).
What is the plural of beachcomber?
The plural of beachcomber is beachcombers.

Words near beachcomber in the dictionary

  1. beachcam
  2. beachcams
  3. beachcast
  4. beachcomb
  5. beachcombed
  6. beachcomber
  7. beachcombers
  8. beachcombing
  9. beachcombings
  10. beachcombs
  11. beached

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beachcomber (page history and authors); Beachcomber (page history and authors); beachcomber (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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