Meaning

Located on the coast of an ocean..

Definitions by Sense

1. Located on the coast of an ocean.
2. The area by and around the ocean.
3. At the oceanside.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)

We stayed in an oceanside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.

In Sri Lanka's oceanside capital, the war is celebrated.

Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!

[…] so far removed from the scenery of her native New England, she felt as though she had entered another world. The waters of Lake Worth, separating Palm Beach from the mainland, sparkled blue and white under the afternoon sun. The oceanside was lined with resort hotels.

Here are mountains running to the sea—the variety of all types of resorts—not merely "seashore alone." There is a section of your country where the mountains join the sea—a beauty spot incomparable—where you may see the rose tint of a famous sunset on these mountains as you lie on the beach. Cool, delightful Southern California—summer wonderful supreme! Temperatures?—let the U. S. Weather Bureau vouch for them in its 49-year record of the average mean temperatures at a central point: 49 Junes, 66 degrees: 49 Julys, 30: 49 Augusts, 71: 49 Septembers, 69 (official figures, not our own). Such bathing, such water you have seldom known at oceansides. And yet the days are rainless, genially warm, just right for every summer sport from golf to mountain climbing.

We dined oceanside and watched the gulls' antics.

Alone on my terrace, as opposed to dining oceanside with the man of my dreams. At least he is most of the time.

Word Forms

• oceansides

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When Should You Use Oceanside?

Use oceanside when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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