midcoast en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- Latin costa Latin costicāreder. Old French costoierbor. Middle English costeien English coast English midcoast From mid- + coast.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Located toward the middle of a coast, not at either end
In “Water Dogs” it’s early March 1997 in midcoast Maine[…].
2009 January 25, Anthony Doerr, “Snowbound”, in New York Times: