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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

/ ˈːˌɔː /

noun

    1. land bordering on the sea; the seashore

    2. ( as modifier )

      seaboard towns

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • interseaboard 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 for def. 1; Middle English seebord. See sea, starboard
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Eventually, the U.S. surrenders after a German nuclear attack; and America is occupied by Nazi Germany along the eastern seaboard and Japan on the West Coast, with a pseudo-independent Vichy regime in the Rockies.

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We knew in advance that some of the strongest winds in the UK and Ireland would be felt on the western seaboard.

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The claims of an invasion of the Eastern seaboard by swarms of drones has every marker of a groundless social media frenzy.

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But, they also admit they have no idea who’s piloting the drones seen along the eastern seaboard.

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Unusually large fires spanned the country with choking smoke from fires in Quebec filling the skies of Eastern Canada and filtering down and degrading air quality down the eastern seaboard of the United States.

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