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of, relating to, bordering on, or located near a coast: The coastal regions are inundated at high tide.
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coast (kəʊst) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Related: littoral |
| a. the line or zone where the land meets the sea or some other large expanse of water | |
| b. (in combination): coastland | |
| 2. | (Brit) the seaside |
| 3. | (US) |
| a. a slope down which a sledge may slide | |
| b. the act or an instance of sliding down a slope | |
| 4. | obsolete borderland or frontier |
| 5. | informal the coast is clear the obstacles or dangers are gone |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to move or cause to move by momentum or force of gravity |
| 7. | (intr) to proceed without great effort: to coast to victory |
| 8. | to sail along (a coast) |
| Related: littoral | |
| [C13: from Old French coste coast, slope, from Latin costa side, rib] | |
| 'coastal | |
| —adj | |
| 'coastally | |
| —adv | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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