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oceanside en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ὠκεᾰνός (Ōkeănós)der. Latin Ōceanusder. Old French occeanbor. Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan English ocean Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English oceanside From ocean + -side.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Located on the coast of an ocean.
   • In Sri Lanka's oceanside capital, the war is celebrated. 2009 February 13, Rick Westhead, “`How many more boys have to die?'”, in Toronto Star:
   • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
   • We stayed in an oceanside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.

Synonyms

seaside

oceanside en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ὠκεᾰνός (Ōkeănós)der. Latin Ōceanusder. Old French occeanbor. Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan English ocean Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English oceanside From ocean + -side.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) At the oceanside.
   • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
   • Alone on my terrace, as opposed to dining oceanside with the man of my dreams. At least he is most of the time. 2011, Tracy Price-Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, “The Wrong Side of Mr. Right”, in My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 261:
   • We dined oceanside and watched the gulls' antics.

Relateds

oceanward

Synonyms

seaside

oceanside en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ὠκεᾰνός (Ōkeănós)der. Latin Ōceanusder. Old French occeanbor. Middle English *ocean, occean, occian, occyan English ocean Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English oceanside From ocean + -side.

Meanings

1. The area by and around the ocean.
   • Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!
   • Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)
   • Here are mountains running to the sea—the variety of all types of resorts—not merely "seashore alone." There is a section of your country where the mountains join the sea—a beauty spot incomparable—where you may see the rose tint of a famous sunset on these mountains as you lie on the beach. Cool, delightful Southern California—summer wonderful supreme! Temperatures?—let the U. S. Weather Bureau vouch for them in its 49-year record of the average mean temperatures at a central point: 49 Junes, 66 degrees: 49 Julys, 30: 49 Augusts, 71: 49 Septembers, 69 (official figures, not our own). Such bathing, such water you have seldom known at oceansides. And yet the days are rainless, genially warm, just right for every summer sport from golf to mountain climbing. 1926 April 15, “A New Kind of Seashore—perhaps, to you. The Condé Nast Travel Service [advertisement]”, in Vogue, volume 67, number 8, page 29:
   • […] so far removed from the scenery of her native New England, she felt as though she had entered another world. The waters of Lake Worth, separating Palm Beach from the mainland, sparkled blue and white under the afternoon sun. The oceanside was lined with resort hotels. 2006, Nora Roberts, By My Side, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 124:

Forms

Synonyms

seaside