coastal

See also: Coastal

English

Etymology

From coast +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: coas‧tal
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊstəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊstəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊstəl

Adjective

coastal (comparative more coastal, superlative most coastal)

1. (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

   coastal town

   coastal breeze

   coastal elites

   • 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].

   • 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN‎:

     Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.

Hypernyms

• aquatic
• (sometimes) marine

Coordinate terms

• littoral

Derived terms

• bicoastal
• Coastal Andhra
• coastal grandma
• coastal grandmother
• coastally
• coastal strawberry
• coastal waters
• intercoastal
• intracoastal
• midcoastal
• noncoastal
• palaeocoastal
• subcoastal
• Suffolk Coastal
• tricoastal

Translations

relating to the coast

Catalan: coster (ca), costaner (ca), costal (ca) Danish: kystnær French: côtier (fr) Galician: costeiro (gl) m Georgian: სანაპირო (sanaṗiro) German: Küsten- (de) Greek: παράκτιος (el) m (paráktios), παραλιακός (el) m (paraliakós) Hindi: तटीय (taṭīya) Hungarian: parti (hu) Italian: costiero (it), litoraneo (it), rivierasco Marathi: किनारी (kinārī), तटस्थ (mr) (taṭastha) Ngazidja Comorian: -a mpvwa Norwegian: Bokmål: kystnær Nynorsk: kystnær Polish: przybrzeżny (pl) Portuguese: costeiro (pt) Romanian: costier (ro) Russian: берегово́й (ru) (beregovój), прибре́жный (ru) (pribréžnyj) Spanish: costero (es), costanero (es), costeño (es) (only for people) Swedish: kustnära (sv), kustsk Turkish: kıyısal, sahilsel Ukrainian: берегови́й (uk) (berehovýj), прибере́жний (pryberéžnyj) Welsh: arfordirol (cy)

Anagrams

• salacot