coast
Other forms: coasts; coasting; coasted
The noun coast describes the area where the land meets the sea — the seashore. When your mom says, "We're going to the coast," pack your bathing suit, because you'll be near the ocean.
Coast also has a verb form that describes an effortless movement, like when you're riding your bike down a hill and you don't have to pedal at all. It can also be used figuratively to describe something that's gained without much difficulty. You might coast to victory in the playoffs when your team wins 8-0 and is never threatened.
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the shore of a sea or oceanexamples:Barbary Coastthe Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish piratesAeoliaan ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BCAtlantic Coasta coast of the Atlantic OceanGulf Coasta seashore of the Gulf of MexicoPacific Coasta coast of the Pacific Oceantypes:landfallthe seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)tidelandland near the sea that is overflowed by the tidetype of:shorethe land along the edge of a body of water
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move effortlessly; by force of gravity
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the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it“the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope”
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a slope down which sleds may coast
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the area within view
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