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- Dictionarycoastal/ˈkəʊstl/
adjective
- 1. of or near a coast: "coastal erosion"
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adjective. uk / ˈkəʊ.st ə l / us / ˈkoʊ.st ə l / Add to word list. B2. positioned on, or relating to the coast: a coastal town. Synonym. littoral. Opposite. inland. Fewer examples. The coastal resorts are deserted in winter. Marine biologists are concerned about the effects of untreated sewage that is flowing into coastal waters.
The meaning of COAST is the land near a shore : seashore. How to use coast in a sentence.
Coastal definition: of, relating to, bordering on, or located near a coast. See examples of COASTAL used in a sentence.
adjective. us / ˈkoʊ.st ə l / uk / ˈkəʊ.st ə l / Add to word list. B2. positioned on, or relating to the coast: a coastal town. Synonym. littoral. Opposite. inland. Fewer examples. The coastal resorts are deserted in winter. Marine biologists are concerned about the effects of untreated sewage that is flowing into coastal waters.
The coast is the land that borders an ocean or sea, and the adjective coastal describes things that affect the coast or are located there. Before it meant "edge of the land," coast referred to a body part—specifically, the rib or "flank."
1. a. Land next to the sea; the seashore. b. The water near this land: fish of the Atlantic coast. c. Coast The Pacific coast of the United States. 2. A hill or other slope down which one may coast, as on a sled. 3. The act of sliding or coasting; slide. 4. Obsolete The frontier or border of a country. v. coast·ed, coast·ing, coasts. v.intr. 1. a.
Definition of coastal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
