Meaning

The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly..

Definitions by Sense

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
4. (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap.
5. (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
6. Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
7. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
8. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.

Example Sentences

Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.

Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.

I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch

The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.

That beach should be punished!

When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

Word Forms

• beaches
• beaching
• beached

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