seaboard sea·board n

seaboard sea·board n
['siːˌbɔːd]
litorale m

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  • sea|board — «SEE BRD, BOHRD», noun, adjective. –n. land near the sea; seacoast; seashore: »New York City is on the Atlantic seaboard. –adj. bordering on the sea. ╂[earlier sea bord, adjective < sea + bord, board side, border < Old French bord] …   Useful english dictionary

  • sea·board — /ˈsiːˌboɚd/ noun, pl boards [count] : the part of a country that is along or near the sea He lives on the eastern seaboard. a seaboard city …   Useful english dictionary

  • Seaboard — Sea board , n. [Sea + board, F. bord side.] The seashore; seacoast. Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Seaboard — Sea board , a. Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Seaboard — Sea board , adv. Toward the sea. [R.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • seaboard — sea|board [ˈsi:bo:d US bo:rd] n the part of a country that is near the sea eastern/western/Pacific etc seaboard ▪ the eastern seaboard of the US …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • seaboard — sea•board [[t]ˈsiˌbɔrd, ˌboʊrd[/t]] n. 1) the line where land and sea meet 2) a region bordering a seacoast: the eastern seaboard[/ex] 3) bordering on the sea • Etymology: 1780–90 …   From formal English to slang

  • seaboard — [sē′bôrd΄] n. [ SEA + BOARD] land or coastal region bordering on the sea adj. bordering on the sea …   English World dictionary

  • seaboard — sea|board [ si,bɔrd ] noun count the part of a country that is next to the ocean …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Sea shanty — For the song Sea Shanty by Quasi, see Featuring Birds For the album Sea Shanties by English band High Tide, see High Tide (band). Sailors sang shanties while performing shipboard labor A shanty (also spelled chantey , chanty ) is a type of work… …   Wikipedia

  • board — [OE] Old English bord had a wide range of meanings, whose two main strands (‘plank’ and ‘border, side of a ship’) reveal that it came from two distinct sources: Germanic *bortham and *borthaz respectively (despite their similarity, they have not… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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