West Coast
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- proper noun
- /wɛst koʊst/
:
costa oeste
- Mr. President, we have an AWAC off the West Coast.
- West Coast states
- U.S. West Coast
- East Coast and West Coast
What the East Coast won't take care of the West Coast will, right?
- What the East Coast won't take care of the West Coast will, right?
- I didn't care about East Coast, West Coast or anything like that.
- Every tech company on the West Coast has the same thing.
- I'm obsessed with West Coast oysters, Olympia, Kumamoto.
- I found the only flight from the airport to the West Coast to LA.
- What we got was Hollywood accents, that West Coast accent that we can kind of decipher.
- There's a multibillion dollar company on the West Coast in the apparel business.
- I had to, you know, and that's how I wound up on the West Coast, right?
- James and Russ are both West Coast LA guys.
- And then they started experiencing historic wildfires on the West Coast due to climate change.
- So they send a team out to the West Coast.
- So yeah, shout out the West Coast, shout the West Coast.
Examples
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There's a multibillion dollar company on the West Coast in the apparel business.
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This is the only late night show on the West Coast on CBS.
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My first time ever on the West Coast right here.
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I found the only flight from the airport to the West Coast to LA.
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I think we got a team on the West Coast.
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I get calls for work on the West Coast.
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Every tech company on the West Coast has the same thing.
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Her ex lives out on the West Coast, and he was there this morning.
Fiction book (1994) -
"This is the best Mobil QuickMart on the entire West Coast of the United States."
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I visited the stunning beaches on the West Coast during my summer vacation.
Synonyms
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The western coastal region of the United States that stretches from Washington to southern California
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the western coastal region' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'West' (western region) with 'coast' (land beside the sea). Although as a proper name it can refer to a specific geopolitical area (e.g., CA/OR/WA), the basic spatial/compositional logic is cross-linguistically common and immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
West Coast comes from a simple map image: west is the side where the sun sets and coast is the land next to the sea, so people used West Coast to mean the 'western shore' of the country. That's why today West Coast usually refers to states like California, Oregon, and Washington.