foreshore
foreshore noun: the part of a shore between high water and low water.
Noun
foreshore (plural foreshores)
- 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
- 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
foreshore meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
foreshore in Tamil
- கடல் அலைக்கும் பகுதி, அலைவாய், குளவாய், கடற்கரை ஓரம், முன் கடற்கரை
foreshore in Malayalam
- കടപ്പുറം, കടൽത്തീരം, കടൽക്കര
Synonyms of foreshore
Forms of foreshore
| plural | foreshores |
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Origin of foreshore
From fore- + shore.
Questions about foreshore
- What does foreshore mean?
- Foreshore means the part of a shore between high water and low water.
- What is foreshore in Tamil?
- Foreshore in Tamil is கடல் அலைக்கும் பகுதி, அலைவாய், குளவாய். See Foreshore meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is foreshore?
- Foreshore is a noun.
- What is the plural of foreshore?
- The plural of foreshore is foreshores.
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