coast
/koʊst/noun, verb1 syllable
Coast means: the shore of a sea or ocean.
Synonyms for coast6
noun, as in the shore of a sea or ocean
seashore, seacoast, sea-coast
noun, as in the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
What does coast mean?5
noun
1
the shore of a sea or ocean
2
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”
3
a slope down which sleds may coast“when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course”
4
the area within view“the coast is clear”
verb
1
move effortlessly; by force of gravity
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with coast?9
Coast in a sentence
- When they got to the coast, the boats were gone.CM
- It's summer, it's the period to go to the coast.anzart
- The ship was a collier, built to carry tons of coal along the coast.rul
- Near the coast, onshore breezes keep even hot days tolerably cool.Delian
- From here, it's about three kilometers to the coast.CK
- Barrier islands are long, sandy islands near the coast.Hybrid
- According to the weather forecast, the typhoon is likely to approach the coast.CK
- I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.Scott
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Forms of coast
as a noun
- plural
- coasts
as a verb
- past tense
- coasted
- present participle
- coasting
- third-person singular
- coasts
- past participle
- coasted