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shoreline

shoreline noun: the divide between land and a body of water.

shoreline: the divide between land and a body of water
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Noun

shoreline (plural shorelines)

  1. The divide between land and a body of water.
    • Owners of homes on eroding beaches are encouraged to move back from the shoreline.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 512
    • An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks, officials say, forcing shoreline cleanups, spreading unpleasant odor and spurring scientists to further investigate the extent of the ecological damage.2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN
  2. The line on a map that illustrates this.

shoreline meaning in Hindi and Odia

shoreline in Hindi

तटरेखा

shoreline in Odia

ତଟରେଖା

Examples of shoreline in a sentence

  • The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.
  • The fieldwork consists of counting the species along the shoreline.
  • This lonely stretch of California, forgotten shoreline, sand streaked with black.

All 26 example sentences with shoreline

Forms of shoreline

pluralshorelines

Plural of shoreline: shorelines

Origin of shoreline

From shore + line.

Words formed from shoreline

Questions about shoreline

What does shoreline mean?
Shoreline means the divide between land and a body of water.
What is shoreline in Hindi?
Shoreline in Hindi is तटरेखा. See Shoreline meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is shoreline?
Shoreline is a noun.
What is the plural of shoreline?
The plural of shoreline is shorelines.

Words near shoreline in the dictionary

  1. shorelarks
  2. shoreless
  3. shorelessly
  4. shorelessness
  5. shorelike
  6. shoreline
  7. shorelined
  8. shorelines
  9. shoreling
  10. shorelings
  11. shoreman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoreline (page history and authors); shoreline (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shoreline (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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