Seaboard

Word SEABOARD
Character 8
Hyphenation sea board
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Seaboard"

What do we mean by seaboard?

A seacoast. noun

Land near the sea. noun

Naval, a board laid out in squares representing a fixed distance, upon which models of vessels made to the same scale as the squares on the board can be manœuvered in playing a naval tactical war game. noun

The sea-shore; the coast-line; the sea-coast; the country bordering on the sea. noun

Bordering on or adjoining the sea.

Toward the sea. adverb

The seashore; seacoast. noun

Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast. adjective

The area bordering the sea; a coastline. noun

The shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort noun

The area bordering the sea; a coastline; a sealine.

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The word "seaboard" in example sentences

The Moroccan government maintains that the 1,000 kilometer stretch of Saharan seaboard is an integral part of its historical territory and that has been its unchanging policy since Spain let go of Western Sahara in 1975. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The eastern seaboard is mainly flat, featureless, overdeveloped, and devastated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Eastern seaboard is never dark – a skein of lights runs along it, always visible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Well, the US eastern seaboard is singularly devoid of precious metal ore deposits, which kept Spanish attention to the south, seeking more lucrative immediate spoils in Mexico and South America. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Curious thing, that we have the cheapest combined rail-and-water haul to the seaboard on this continent when that seaboard is in Montreal. ❋ Unknown (1928)

But, as I sit down today to write this article, a business executive with an industrial firm on the Eastern seaboard is telephoning a bookmaker to place a fifty-dollar bet on a horse race; a factory worker in a Midwestern town is standing at a lunch counter filling out a basketball parlay card on which he will wager two dollars; a housewife in a West Coast suburb is handing a dime to a policy writer who operates a newsstand as a front near the supermarket where she shops. ❋ Unknown (1969)

"Most people said, hang on, why did you put them all on that eastern seaboard, which is a seismically unstable region?" ❋ Unknown (2011)

As is often forgotten, it would also protect the U.S., by providing an additional layer of defense for the Eastern seaboard, which is a long way from the Alaskan defenses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tissaphernes and all the rest of the Asiatics on the seaboard are our foes, not to speak of our arch-enemy, the king himself, up yonder, whom we came to deprive of his empire, and to kill, if possible. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The pounds sterling that were idling in the hank account of a wealthy English spinster could be transmuted into German steel rails and American locomotives to construct a railway in Brazil, and the freights of coffee which that railway brought down to the seaboard were again transmuted into the money with which the English investor paid her bills at the hotel on the Riviera where she chose to live. ❋ Unknown (1948)

Along the eastern seaboard, which is well watered by running rivers and creeks, the Blackall Range is becoming an important dairy centre. ❋ Australia. Dept. Of External Affairs (N/A)

Agriculture is the chief industry, but is of two kinds: the tropical agriculture of the central and south central seaboard, which is carried on principally by negro and mulatto labour, and the agriculture of the temperate region of the extreme south, which is carried on mainly by colonists from Europe, the recent ❋ Various (N/A)

Mr. Vanderbilt immediately issued a statement that the rates to the seaboard should be the same to all ports, and that the New York Central would meet the lowest rates to any port by putting the same in effect on its own lines. ❋ Depew, Chauncey M (1922)

I was just then giving up some days of my allotted span to the last chapters of the novel "Nostromo," a tale of an imaginary (but true) seaboard, which is still mentioned now and again, and indeed kindly, sometimes in connection with the word "failure" and sometimes in conjunction with the word "astonishing." ❋ Unknown (1919)

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