SEABOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seaboard mean? 

• SEABOARD (noun)
  The noun SEABOARD has 1 sense:

1. the shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort

  Familiarity information: SEABOARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEABOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

seaboard; seaside

Hypernyms ("seaboard" is a kind of...):

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

 Context examples 

Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the were-wolves themselves had come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I remember the portrait of him up in Gatsby's bedroom, a grey, florid man with a hard empty face—the pioneer debauchee who during one phase of American life brought back to the eastern seaboard the savage violence of the frontier brothel and saloon.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)