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foreshore en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + shore.

Meanings

1. The part of a shore between high water and low water.
   • The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75. 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:
   • It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore. 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397:

Forms

Coordinates

backshore

Synonyms

intertidal zone

Translations (8)

fo fjøra (The intertidal zone) · mi tuaone (The intertidal zone) · pt região entremarés (The intertidal zone) · ro avanplajă (The intertidal zone) · fr estran (The intertidal zone) · pt zona intertidal (The intertidal zone) · bal بدوک (The intertidal zone) · pt zona entremarés (The intertidal zone)