littoral
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈlɪtərəl/
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litoral
- This picture is true for many cities around the Mediterranean littoral: Casablanca, Algiers, Cairo, and Gaza.
- eastern littoral
Examples
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The littoral areas are vital ecosystems that support diverse marine life near the shoreline.
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Indonesia's importance to the concept of an East Asian littoral, raised in the 2001 U.S. Quarterly Defense Review, is obvious from its geographical spread and location.
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During the first half of the 18th century, most people on the eastern littoral continued to live in largely autonomous villages.
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During this period, numerous indigenous and colonial interactions occurred in different areas of the littoral and among different groups.
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Even before that era, Muslim bands swept over the northern littoral of Africa and across the sea into the Iberian Peninsula.
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Finally, India would like to possess the requisite naval capabilities to carry out peacekeeping missions in the Indian Ocean littoral.
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We should concentrate our vigilance on key nation-states along the Atlantic and Pacific littorals.
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City-states from Mycenaean Greece straight down the eastern Mediterranean littoral to the borders of Egypt were sacked, burned, and abandoned.
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In the second, which encompasses the so-called extended neighborhood stretching across Asia and the Indian Ocean littoral, India has sought to balance the influence of other powers and prevent them from undercutting its interests.
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In recent years, Spanish speakers from other regions of the Caribbean, including the Caribbean littoral of Central America and northern South America, have followed in the footsteps of the many thousands of refugees from Cuba who have been transforming Miami into a Hispanic haven since the rise of Fidel Castro in 1959.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
Land at the edge of a sea or lake
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2.7
The line where land meets water like a sea, lake or river
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1.0
Land at the edge of the sea with sand or rocks
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1.0
Land beside the sea or ocean
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6.9
The part of the seashore between the high and low tide marks
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1.1
Land next to the sea or ocean
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9.9
The area where land meets the sea or a lake
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3.4
Land next to water like a lake or sea
Land near the sea that the tide covers and uncovers
Area along the edge of a sea or lake that is often affected by water
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Littoral (the noun) comes from the Latin root litus meaning 'shore', and a similar word exists in Spanish and French. So the littoral is the strip of land by the sea or lake, often the area between the high and low water marks.