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seaboard

[ see-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. the line where land and sea meet.
  2. a region bordering a seacoast:

    the Eastern seaboard.



adjective

  1. bordering on or adjoining the sea.

seaboard

/ ˈsiːˌbɔːd /

noun

    1. land bordering on the sea; the seashore
    2. ( as modifier )

      seaboard towns



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Other Words From

  • inter·seaboard adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of seaboard1

1350–1400 for earlier sense “porthole cover”; 1480–90 in phrases at, on, to seaboard on the seaward side; 1815–25 seaboard fordef 1; Middle English seebord. See sea, starboard

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Example Sentences

We all know that people on the Eastern Seaboard can adopt foreign grocery concepts as their own, even if they come from Texas.

Watching Sandy on her careening path toward the Eastern Seaboard scares me more than it would have 15 months ago.

It was easy to avoid foreign entanglements when it was a small country clinging to the Eastern Seaboard of North America.

In the years before the American Revolution, few colonists on the Atlantic seaboard joined militias or even knew how to use arms.

Tens of thousands line up to pay their respects as Hurricane Danny moves slowly up the Atlantic seaboard and darkens the sky.

The Seaboard will sue the new railroad for damages for failure to have the tracks into the cuttings on time.

Contract with the Seaboard folks makes it look like it would pay eighteen, twenty per cent on the investment, maybe more.

One is apt to forget that Old Castile is one of the provinces having a northern seaboard.

Or would he move his right flank along the Blue Ridge, crowding Lee to the seaboard?

As it draws nearer we see that it is a caravan of wild animals on their way from the interior to the seaboard.

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