What is another word for coastline?

Pronunciation: [kˈə͡ʊsla͡ɪn] (IPA)

A coastline is a stretch of land that borders a body of water, be it an ocean, sea, or lake. There are numerous synonyms for the term coastline, including shore, seashore, littoral, beachfront, seaboard, waterfront, and beachside. These terms are often used interchangeably to describe the same geographical feature. The coastlines of different regions around the world are varied, ranging from sandy and flat to rocky and rugged. Regardless of its appearance, the coastline is an essential part of the Earth's ecosystem, supporting a diverse range of flora and fauna. Thus, whether you refer to it as a shoreline, seacoast, or waterside, the coastline is an important aspect of our planet's geography and its cultural heritage.

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Usage examples for Coastline

Then the range of forest-clothed sandhills forming the coastline held a succession of camps.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
He allowed himself a reading light in the cramped compartment, folded the map-table up from the wall, and studied the coastline of Africa.
"Way of a Rebel"
Walter M. Miller
The very configuration of the coastline, which rendered a sally from the Dardanelles a feat of extraordinary folly and temerity, made it a unique hiding place for the small craft who slipped out of Volo and emerged from the Trikari Channel after dark.
"Command"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Coastline

  • War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
    Smedley Butler
  • California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It's dramatic.
    Jennifer M. Granholm
  • Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
    Graham Greene
  • Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
    Dana Rohrabacher
  • Well, I didn't ever think about Australia much. To me Australia had never been very interesting, it was just something that happened in the background. It was Neighbours and Crocodile Dundee movies and things that never really registered with me and I didn't pay any attention to it at all. I went out there in 1992, as I was invited to the Melbourne Writers Festival, and I got there and realised almost immediately that this was a really really interesting country and I knew absolutely nothing about it. As I say in the book, the thing that really struck me was that they had this prime minister who disappeared in 1967, Harold Holt and I had never heard about this. I should perhaps tell you because a lot of other people haven't either. In 1967 Harold Holt was prime minister and he was walking along a beach in Victoria just before Christmas and decided impulsively to go for a swim and dove into the water and swam about 100 feet out and vanished underneath the waves, presumably pulled under by the ferocious undertow or rips as they are called, that are a feature of so much of the Australian coastline. In any case, his body was never found. Two things about that amazed me. The first is that a country could just lose a prime minister — that struck me as a really quite special thing to do — and the second was that I had never heard of this. I could not recall ever having heard of this. I was sixteen years old in 1967. I should have known about it and I just realised that there were all these things about Australia that I had never heard about that were actually very very interesting. The more I looked into it, the more I realised that it is a fascinating place. The thing that really endeared Australia to me about Harold Holt's disappearance was not his tragic drowning, but when I learned that about a year after he disappeared the City of Melbourne, his home town, decided to commemorate him in some appropriate way and named a municipal swimming pool after him. I just thought: this is a great country.
    Bill Bryson

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