Word.ws English Dictionary

shoregoing

shoregoing adjective: going ashore.

Adjective

shoregoing (not comparable)

  1. Going ashore.
    • Pumps: A shoe with a thin sole and low heel, oftern^([sic]) worn by seamen as part of their shoregoing finery.2012, Antonia T. Bly, Escaping Bondage

Origin of shoregoing

From shore + going.

Questions about shoregoing

What does shoregoing mean?
Shoregoing means going ashore.
What part of speech is shoregoing?
Shoregoing is an adjective.

Words near shoregoing in the dictionary

  1. shorefast
  2. shorefish
  3. shorefishes
  4. shorefront
  5. shorefronts
  6. shoregoing
  7. Shoreham
  8. Shoreham-by-Sea
  9. shoreland
  10. shorelands
  11. shorelark

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shoregoing (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shoregoing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shoregoing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.