coastland
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊstˌlænd/
:
costa
- Many towns along the coastland rely on fishing and tourism for their economy.
Examples
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Tri-apsidal buildings with multi-angular (polygonal) walls are an architectural innovation supposedly developed for the Christian churches around the Aegean coastlands (Greece and Turkey) late in the fifth century after Christ.
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Another study of FUOs (excluding malaria diagnosed during the first 72 hours after hospitalization) was conducted for 4 months during 1966-1967 at the Eighth Field Hospital in the semimountainous central coastlands of Vietnam.
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Whether a new bridge or a long bridge is thus worthwhile, I'll be like that economist in the Coastland Times and let you decide.
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How many more U.S. coastlands have to be destroyed by greedy, irresponsible oil companies for us to seriously look for alternative sources of energy?
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Do you hear the waters rushin' against the shores of our coastlands?
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Such variations from place to place throughout the coastlands of the world have had significant, though frequently underrated, places in the literature of the law of the sea.
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This man returned to power on 1/4/2009, having trodden down three kings. Previous tax collector Olmet was treasurer; prior to him was the one who returned from the coastlands.
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The coastlands of northern Sicily from Taormina to Trapani alternate between narrow alluvial plains and rocky spurs, which often leave little space for communications.
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This first contact with tropical Africa was incidental and mainly limited to the coastlands, for, in general, the Portuguese voyagers who brought it were not missionaries, but merchants and adventurers, accompanied by their chaplains.
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The coastland is home to beautiful beaches and stunning cliffs that attract tourists every summer.
Synonyms
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The land beside the sea or ocean
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Land at the edge of a sea or lake
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The line where the land meets the sea
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The line where land meets water like a sea, lake or river
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The part of a country along the coast with beaches and towns
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An area near the sea where people go for holidays
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Land at the edge of the sea with sand or rocks
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Land beside the sea or ocean
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The area right next to the ocean where it meets the shore
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Land next to the sea or ocean
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Land next to water like a lake or sea
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An area of land next to a body of water
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The area where land meets the sea or a lake
Land along the sea, often with beaches
A seaside region popular with tourists for its beaches
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Coastland combines coast (the 'edge' of the land by the sea) and land ('ground'), so coastland simply means the area of ground that lies next to the sea.