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shorelines

shorelines is the plural of shoreline.

Meaning of shoreline

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
  2. The line on a map that illustrates this.

Questions about shorelines

What is shorelines the plural of?
Shorelines is the plural of shoreline.

Words near shorelines in the dictionary

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

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