different between seaboard vs seashore

English

Alternative forms

• seabord (obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier sea-bord, perhaps continuing (with change in meaning) Middle English see bord (“porthole cover, seaward side”), equivalent to sea +? board.

Noun

seaboard (plural seaboards)

1. The area bordering the sea; a coastline; a sealine.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,

     While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Derived terms

• interseaboard

Anagrams

• roadbase

English

Etymology

sea +? shore

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??shô, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (General American) enPR: s??shôr, IPA^(key): /?si????/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: s??sh?r, IPA^(key): /?si??o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?si??o?/

Noun

seashore (plural seashores)

1. The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
2. The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.

Synonyms

• (land bordering the sea): seacoast, sea marge
• (strip between high and low water marks): foreshore, intertidal zone, littoral

Hypernyms

• (land bordering the sea): shore, coast, strand

Translations

Anagrams

• sea horse, seahorse