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Antonyms for coast
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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.9 / 7 votes

  1. coast

    Bank is a general term for the land along the edge of a water course; it may also denote a raised portion of the bed of a river, lake, or ocean; as, the Banks of Newfoundland. A beach is a strip or expanse of incoherent wave-worn sand, which is often pebbly or full of boulders; we speak of the beach of a lake or ocean; a beach is sometimes found in the bend of a river. Strand is a more poetic term for a wave-washed shore, especially as a place for landing or embarking; as, the keel grates on the strand. The whole line of a country or continent that borders the sea is a coast. Shore is any land, whether cliff, or sand, or marsh, bordering water. We do not speak of the coast of a river, nor of the banks of the ocean, tho there may be banks by or under the sea. Edge is the line where land and water meet; as, the water's edge. Brink is the place from which one may fall; as, the river's brink; the brink of a precipice; the brink of ruin.

    Synonyms:
    bank, beach, border, bound, brim, brink, edge, marge, margin, rim, shore, strand

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Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 2 votes

  1. seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coastnoun

    the shore of a sea or ocean

    Synonyms:
    slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

  2. coastnoun

    a slope down which sleds may coast

    "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"

    Synonyms:
    slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

  3. coastnoun

    the area within view

    "the coast is clear"

    Synonyms:
    slide, sea-coast, glide, seacoast, seashore

  4. slide, glide, coastverb

    the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it

    "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope"

    Synonyms:
    seashore, semivowel, chute, sailing, slide, microscope slide, sea-coast, slideway, sliding board, swoop, lantern slide, soaring, gliding, seacoast, glide, playground slide, sailplaning, sloping trough

  5. coastverb

    move effortlessly; by force of gravity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. coastnoun

    Synonyms:
    seashore, seaboard, seaside, shore, strand, beach

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. COAST

    Synonyms:
    Heparin-COAted Stents in Small Coronary Arteries Trial

How to use coast in a sentence?

  1. Michael Spavor:

    They're looking at this as a new East Asian business and tourism hub, it's a nice area, it's on the coast, and it has the same qualities and infrastructure that once made places like Shenzhen and Hong Kong such attractive investment zones.

  2. Ben Crump:

    Not only were Chauvin and the City of Minneapolis held accountable, but cities and states across the country have passed meaningful reforms, including restrictions on chokeholds and better training and protocols, we need this sentence to usher in a new era of accountability that transforms how Black people are treated by police. To achieve that – real, lasting change in police departments from coast to coast – we need the U.S. Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act without further delay.

  3. Navy Times:

    This is the U.S. Coast Guard, not the San Diego Police Department.

  4. Stephen Midway:

    As development increases along the coast and in beach communities, more residents and tourists frequent these waters, with more people in the water, the chance for a shark attack increases. However, I must stress the fact that not all places across the globe saw an increase. And even in the places where we saw an increase, the chances were still one in several million.

  5. Sean Hecht:

    With the salience of wildfires in the West, sea-level rise in the Gulf Coast and Florida and the way that weather affects farmers, people are beginning to see the effects of climate change, i do think that makes a difference to voters.

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