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seaboard

[see-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

the line where land and sea meet.

a region bordering a seacoast: the Eastern seaboard.

adjective

bordering on or adjoining the sea.

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

Related forms

in·ter·sea·board, adjective

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seaboard (ˈsiːˌbɔːd)

—n
	a. land bordering on the sea; the seashore
	b. (as modifier): seaboard towns

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