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oceanside

oceanside adjective: located on the coast of an ocean.

Adjective

oceanside (not comparable)

  1. Located on the coast of an ocean.
    • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
    • We stayed in an oceanside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.
    Synonyms:
    seaside

Noun

oceanside (plural oceansides)

  1. The area by and around the ocean.
    • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
    • Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!
    Synonyms:
    seaside

Adverb

oceanside (not comparable)

  1. At the oceanside.
    • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
    • We dined oceanside and watched the gulls' antics.
    Synonyms:
    seaside

Proper noun capitalized: Oceanside

Oceanside

  1. A city in San Diego County, California, United States.
    • Attendees will be encouraged to try their hand at protologism (creating new words) and become the Shake-spears ^([sic]) of Oceanside! […] Event organizers and supporters from the Oceanside Public Library, Friends of the Oceanside Public Library, and Oceanside Cultural Arts Foundation are pleased...2013 July 12, “3rd annual ‘Write On, Oceanside’ — July 20”, in La Prensa San Diego, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016, Community Notes
  2. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.
  3. A census-designated place in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.
  4. A group of communities on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
  5. A suburb of the town of South West Rocks, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

Examples of oceanside in a sentence

  • In Sri Lanka's oceanside capital, the war is celebrated.2009 February 13, Rick Westhead, “`How many more boys have to die?'”, in Toronto Star:
  • The oceanside was lined with resort hotels.2006, Nora Roberts, By My Side, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 124:
  • Such bathing, such water you have seldom known at oceansides.1926 April 15, “A New Kind of Seashore—perhaps, to you. The Condé Nast Travel Service [advertisement]”, in Vogue, volume 67, number 8, page...
  • Alone on my terrace, as opposed to dining oceanside with the man of my dreams.2011, Tracy Price-Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, “The Wrong Side of Mr. Right”, in My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas, Atria Books, →ISBN, page...

Synonyms of oceanside

Forms of oceanside

pluraloceansides

Origin of oceanside

From ocean + -side.

From ocean + side.

Questions about oceanside

What does oceanside mean?
Oceanside means located on the coast of an ocean.
How do you use oceanside in a sentence?
In Sri Lanka's oceanside capital, the war is celebrated.
What part of speech is oceanside?
Oceanside can be an adjective, a noun, an adverb or a proper noun.

Words near oceanside in the dictionary

  1. oceanology
  2. oceanophyte
  3. oceanophytes
  4. Oceanport
  5. oceans
  6. oceanside
  7. oceansides
  8. Oceanus
  9. oceanview
  10. oceanviews
  11. oceanward

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