coasts
/kəʊsts/US/koʊsts/
coasts is the plural of coast.
coasts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of coast.
Meaning of coast
Noun
coast (plural coasts)
- The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake.
- The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.
- The side or edge of something.
- And the Coaſt towards which the lines KL and VX are drawn, may be call’d the Coaſt of unuſual Refraction.1730, Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed., London: […] William Innys […], page 331
- A region of land; a district or country.
- Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew ij
- A region of the air or heavens.
- the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Words that rhyme with coasts
Questions about coasts
- What is coasts the plural of?
- Coasts is the plural of coast.
- How do you pronounce coasts?
- Coasts is pronounced /koʊsts/ (US).
Words near coasts in the dictionary
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