Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a coast or shore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a coast.

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  • adjective relating to the coast; on or near the coast, as a coastal town, a coastal breeze

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to a coast
  • adjective located on or near or bordering on a coast

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Examples

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • 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.

    Steve Valk: How to Bring Down the Coal and Oil Goliath: A Million Personal Letters Steve Valk 2010

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • 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 2010

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • 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.”

    Wonk Room » The WonkLine: March 12, 2009 2009

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

  • The climate is similar to that you would find in coastal Southern California or the highlands of Malaysia or Kenya or India.

    Moving to Ajijic Possibly? 2009

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