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seabanks

seabanks is the plural of seabank.

Meaning of seabank

Noun

seabank (plural seabanks)

  1. A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
    • So strong is the barrier which these sea-borne sands oppose to the river-borne ooze, that as soon as a seabank is built — as the projectors of the Victoria County have built them — across any part of the estuary, the mud caught by it soon 'warps' the space within into firm and rich dry land.c. 1860, Charles Kingsley, The Fens
  2. The seashore.

Questions about seabanks

What is seabanks the plural of?
Seabanks is the plural of seabank.

Words near seabanks in the dictionary

  1. seabag
  2. seabags
  3. seaball
  4. seaballs
  5. seabank
  6. seabanks
  7. seabase
  8. seabases
  9. seabass
  10. seabasses
  11. seabat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seabanks (page history and authors); seabank (page history and authors). 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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