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downshore

downshore

9.9
A part of the shore farther along from a given point
  • noun
  • /ˈdaʊnˌʃɔr/
translation icon : parte costera
  • He set up his tent downshore from the rocky outcrop for a better view.

Examples

  • We walked downshore to find a quieter spot away from the crowd.

  • There she is, he sees now, in the downshore distance: a fetchingly bikini-clad and sun-visored miss herself, stretched out on Senor Chacmool with the bag beside her and reading a book.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The beach party continued downshore as the sun began to set.

Antonyms

upcoast
  • US
5.4

Near the northern part of a coast, farther along the shore from a town

Surface Forms

downshore singular
downshores plural

Morphology

downshore = shore (transparent) = down + shore

The nominal sense as 'the part of coast further along' is a regular noun use of the directional compound and is inferable. [Postprocessing: moved 'down' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Downshore is made of down ('farther along or lower') and shore ('coast'). As a noun, downshore names the part of the coast that is farther along from you, like how seashore names the land by the sea.