INSHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inshore mean? 

• INSHORE (adjective)
  The adjective INSHORE has 2 senses:

1. (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land

2. close to a shore

  Familiarity information: INSHORE used as an adjective is rare.

• INSHORE (adverb)
  The adverb INSHORE has 1 sense:

1. toward the shore

  Familiarity information: INSHORE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSHORE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land

Synonyms:

inshore; onshore; shoreward

Context example:

an onshore gale

Antonym:

offshore ((of winds) coming from the land)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Close to a shore

Context example:

inshore fisheries

Similar:

coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)

• INSHORE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Toward the shore

Context example:

we swam two miles inshore

 Context examples 

From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)