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coastline

coastline noun: the shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.).

Noun

coastline (countable and uncountable, plural coastlines)

  1. The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.)
    • The sweep of the rocky Southern California coastline off Point Fermin.
    • Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 328

coastline meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Nepali

coastline in Tamil

கடற்கரை

coastline in Kannada

ಕಡಲ ತೀರರೇಖೆ

coastline in Nepali

तटरेखा

Examples of coastline in a sentence

  • The back and forth movement of the tide causes erosion of the coastline.
  • The place in question was the stretch of Campanian coastline around the Bay of Naples.
  • The Far Eastern Federal District includes the Arctic region and Pacific Ocean coastline.

All 37 example sentences with coastline

Synonyms of coastline

All synonyms of coastline

Forms of coastline

pluralcoastlines

Plural of coastline: coastlines

Origin of coastline

From coast + line.

Words formed from coastline

Questions about coastline

What does coastline mean?
Coastline means the shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.).
What is coastline in Tamil?
Coastline in Tamil is கடற்கரை. See Coastline meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is coastline?
Coastline is a noun.
What is the plural of coastline?
The plural of coastline is coastlines.

Words near coastline in the dictionary

  1. coastland
  2. coastlander
  3. coastlanders
  4. coastlands
  5. coastless
  6. coastline
  7. coastlined
  8. coastlines
  9. coastrange sculpin
  10. coastrange sculpins
  11. coasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coastline (page history and authors); coastline (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coastline (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coastline (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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