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shore1

Syllabification: (shore)
Pronunciation: /SHôr/

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Definition of shore

noun

  • the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water:I took the tiller and made for the shore
  • Law the land between ordinary high- and low-water marks.
  • (usually shores) a country or other geographic area bounded by a coast:the shores of the New World

Phrases

on shore

ashore; on land:are any of the crew left on shore?

Derivatives

shoreless

adjective

shoreward

Pronunciation: /-wərd/

adjective & adverb

shorewards

Pronunciation: /-wərdz/

adverb

Origin:

Middle English: from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schōre; perhaps related to the verb shear

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