Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a coast or shore.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a coast.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a coast
- adj. located on or near or bordering on a coast
Examples
“Despite excluding a “worst-case” scenario of polar ice sheet loss, researchers report that “nearly 500,000 people and $100 billion worth of property in coastal California are at risk of severe flooding from rising sea levels this century.””
“Which means, it has to be acceptable in coastal southern California, year-around, as well as in Florida. mark says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform
“The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.”
“If that continues to be the case, we can abandon all hope of reversing the process that is melting glaciers and parching farmlands, a process that will eventually make climate refugees out of hundreds of millions of people living in coastal areas.”
“She studied fiction writing with Jim Shepard and spent her junior fall in coastal Kenya.”
“If the sea rises, we lose trillions in coastal real estate.”
“Great Whites - Great Whites are found in coastal waters in every ocean.”
“Just yesterday an Ohio man was golfing at the Fripp Island Resort, a beach community in coastal South Carolina, when he was attacked by a 10-foot gator.”
“Lowdown: Two distinct elk herds, with Roosevelt elk in coastal ranges and Yellowstone elk in the Cascades.”
“We start shopping with what my friend Martha calls "our Holiday Eyes in": applying the same skewed sense of judgement that inspires us to buy harem-pant all-in-one jumpsuits from surf shacks in Spanish coastal towns or jelly sandals from French Carrefours.”
The Guardian: What I bought this week: hot clothes for hot days
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coastal’.
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Maritime
Nautilusty
abaft, navalis, coastal, nautical, marine, sea, sea-going, Occident, Orient, trans-Atlantic, amidships, transom and 28 more...
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Land and climate
obsidian, desert, snowfall, rainfall, hill, cloud, sunflower, meadow, woods, starlight, weed, mineral and 68 more...
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seacoasts's list
palimpsest, palindrome, verdure, intricate, palisades, coastal, indian, wolves, concierge, quixotic, synaesthesia, spectres and 6 more...
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English 090 - Unit 5: Ecotourism
This list consists of new vocabulary words included in the two readings of Unit 5: Ecotourism.
ecology, tourism, continent, coastal, consequences, fragile, harsh, inhabit, landscape, preserve, remote, research and 11 more...
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words about water
words about forms of water, places of water, movements of water.
estuary, tributary, effluvial, alluvial, river, bay, pond, playa lake, tidal, bayou, cloud, cumulonimbus and 63 more...
Tweets
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