shore1 nounshore2 verb
shoreshore1 /ʃɔː $ ʃɔːr/ ●●● W3 noun 
WORD ORIGINshore1
Origin:
1300-1400 Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schoreEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After the battle Sir Bedivere is carrying Arthur's weak body down to the shore.
- As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.
- He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore.
- Hill swam out to haul Leach to shore and retrieve the barrel.
- People paddle kayaks and outriggers along the shore, and catamarans whizz by, leaning precariously on one hull.
- The big ships, those drawn up far on the shore, had tumbled together, smashing one another to powder.
- The treatment involved walking three times round the shore and then departing, without looking back.
THESAURUS
the area of sand, mud, or low land along the edge of the sea, a lake etc: · I went down to the shore to meet him.· The fish is commonly found off the shores of Australia.· They had planned to take a picnic on the shores of Lake Havel.
the land next to the sea: · He lives on the Sussex coast.· one of the most luxurious hotels on the south coast· the Draugen oil field, off the West coast of Norway· the East Coast of the United States
an area of sand or small stones at the edge of the sea: · Let's go to the beach.· Brighton beach
the land at the edge of the sea, consisting of sand or rocks: · He walked with her along the seashore.· You can hear the waves breaking on the seashore.
British English the areas or towns next to the sea where people go to enjoy themselves: · We went on day trips to the seaside.· Oh I do love to be beside the seaside (=a line from a well-known song).· a seaside town· a seaside resort
the land along the side of a river: · a journey along the banks of the River Ganges· He swam over to the other bank.· The river burst its banks.
the part of a town or an area of land next to the sea, a river etc – used especially when talking about buildings near the water: · The restaurant is down on the waterfront.· a waterfront bar in Montreal called The Neptune
(also the lakeside, the riverside) the area at the edge of a lake, river etc: · The mountains almost come down to the waterside.· a rented villa on the lakeside· A number of barges were hidden in the trees along the riverside.· beautiful riverside views
Longman Language Activatorland at the edge of water the part of a country that is close to the sea - use this when you are talking about a country or a large part of a country: · driving along the Californian coast, from San Francisco to LAon the coast (=on land that is close to the sea): · a little house on the coast of Brittanyoff the coast (=in the sea but close to the land): · They discovered oil off the northern coast of Scotland.the coast of: · The ship slowly made its way along the west coast of Africa.
the land along the edge of the sea or along the edge of a lake: · We could see a boat about a mile from the shore.the shore of/the shores of: · a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario
an area of sand at the edge of the sea - use this especially to talk about a place where you go to relax and enjoy yourself: · The area has miles of unspoiled sandy beaches..the beach: · By nine o'clock the beach was already crowded with people.· Let's go to the beach tomorrow.
British a place at the edge of the sea - use this especially to talk about somewhere where you go for a holiday or to enjoy yourself: · When I was little we used to go to the seaside most weekends.
British /by the ocean American on land next to the sea: · We bought a small cottage by the sea.· walking by the ocean in the early morning
the edge of the land next to the sea - use this especially to talk about a long length of this land or the shape it makes, for example as seen from the air: · The road follows the rugged coastline of northern France for nearly 100 miles.· Environmentalists are concerned about possible damage to some of the most beautiful stretches of Welsh coastline.· Far below us, we could just see the coastline of Argentina dimly outlined.
WORD SETSbackwater, nounbank, nounbank, verbbare, adjectivebarrier reef, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbeck, nounbelt, nounbillow, nounbiting, adjectivebitter, adjectiveblack ice, nounblast, nounblazing, adjectivebleach, verbblizzard, nounblow, verbblowy, adjectivebluff, nounbluster, verbblustery, adjectivebog, nounboiling, adjectiveboulder, nounbracing, adjectivebreaker, nounbreeze, nounbreezy, adjectivebrook, nounbrush, nounbrushwood, nounburn, nounbutte, nouncanyon, nouncascade, nouncataract, nouncave, nouncavern, nounchange, verbchasm, nounchoppy, adjectiveclap, nounclear, verbclement, adjectivecliff, nouncloud, nouncloudburst, nouncloudy, adjectivecoast, nouncoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncone, nouncopse, nouncountry, nouncranny, nouncrater, nouncreation, nouncreep, verbcrisp, adjectivecrosswind, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundale, noundell, noundense, adjectivedew, noundewdrop, noundewfall, noundewy, adjectivedisgorge, verbdog days, noundownpour, noundownriver, adverbdownstream, adverbdownwind, adverbdrift, verbdrift, noundriftwood, noundrizzle, noundrop, verbdrop, noundrought, noundry, adjectivedry land, noundull, adjectivedune, nounduster, noundust storm, nouneast, adjectiveeddy, nounelectrical storm, nounequable, adjectiveeye, nounface, nounfail, verbfair, adjectivefall, nounfell, nounfen, nounfield, nounfierce, adjectivefiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood, verbflood, nounflood tide, nounflotsam, nounflow, nounflow, verbflower, nounflurry, nounfog, nounfogbound, adjectivefoggy, adjectivefoothill, nounfoothold, nounford, nounforeshore, nounforest, nounfoul, adjectivefreak, adjectivefreeze, nounfresh, adjectivefreshen, verbfreshwater, adjectivefrost, nounfury, noungale, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungentle, adjectivegeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglen, noungnarled, adjectivegrassy, adjectivegreen, adjectivegreenery, nounground, nounground level, noungulley, noungully, noungust, noungust, verbgusty, adjectivehail, nounhailstone, nounhailstorm, nounhaze, nounheadwind, nounheath, nounheather, nounheat wave, nounhigh tide, nounhigh water, nounhill, nounhillock, nounhillside, nounhill station, nounhilly, adjectivehoarfrost, nounhot spring, nounhummock, nounhurricane, nounice, nouniceberg, nounice cap, nouninclement, adjectiveincline, nounIndian summer, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninshore, adverbisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounjetsam, nounjungle, nounknoll, nounlake, nounlakeside, adjectiveledge, nounlightning, nounlip, nounloch, nounlough, nounlow tide, nounlow water, nounmarshland, nounmeadow, nounmere, nounmild, adjectivemillpond, nounmire, nounmist, nounmisty, adjectivemoan, verbmoan, nounmonsoon, nounmoonless, adjectivemoor, nounmoorland, nounMother Nature, nounmound, nounmountain, nounmountainous, adjectivemountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudflat, nounmull, nounmurmur, verbmurmur, nounnarrows, nounnestle, verbnew moon, nounnook, nounnorth, adjectivenortheast, adjectivenortheaster, nounnortheasterly, adjectivenortherly, adjectivenorthwest, adjectivenorthwester, nounnorthwesterly, adjectivenotch, nounoasis, nounonshore, adjectiveooze, nounoutcrop, nounovercast, adjectiveozone, nounpack ice, nounpalisade, nounpanorama, nounparch, verbparched, adjectivepass, nounpatchy, adjectivepeak, nounpeal, nounpeasouper, nounpebble, nounpelt, verbpenumbra, nounperishing, adjectivepinewood, nounpinnacle, nounpitiless, adjectivepond, nounpour, verbprecipice, nounprospect, nounpuddle, nounquicksand, nounradiate, verbraging, adjectiverain, nounrainbow, nounrain drop, nounrainfall, nounrainstorm, nounrainwater, nounrainy, adjectiverange, nounrapids, nounrarefied, adjectiveravine, nounraw, adjectiverecede, verbreedy, adjectivereef, nounreservoir, nounridge, nounrift, nounrime, nounrise, verbrise, nounrock, nounrocky, adjectiveroll, verbrolling, adjectiverough, adjectiverural, adjectivescenery, nounscud, verbsea breeze, nounsea mist, nounset, verbshore, nounsky, nounslope, nounsludge, nounsnow, nounsnowbound, adjectivesnow-capped, adjectivesnowdrift, nounsnowfall, nounsnowflake, nounsnowstorm, nounsnowy, adjectivesouth, adjectivesoutheast, adjectivesoutheaster, nounsoutheasterly, adjectivesoutherly, adjectivesouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivespinney, nounspring, nounstream, nounsullen, adjectivesultry, adjectivesummer, nounsummit, nounsun, nounsundown, nounsun-drenched, adjectivesunrise, nounsunset, nounsunshine, nounswamp, nounsweep, verbswollen, adjectivetempestuous, adjectivethaw, verbthaw, nounthicket, nounthin, adjectivethunder, verbthunderbolt, nounthunderstorm, nounthundery, adjectivetide, nountreeless, adjectivetree-lined, adjectivetrough, nounturf, nountussock, nountwilight, nounvale, nounvalley, nounverdant, adjectivevisibility, nounvoid, nounwashout, nounwater, nounwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterside, nounwaterspout, nounwax, verbwest, adjectivewest, adverbwestbound, adjectivewesterly, adjectivewesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwet, adjectivewhirlpool, nounwhirlwind, nounwhite horses, nounwhitewater, nounwild, adjectivewill o' the wisp, nounwind, nounwindstorm, nounwindswept, adjectivewindy, adjectivewood, nounwooded, adjectivewoodland, nounwoodsy, adjectivewoody, adjectivezephyr, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
growing fears that English football players will be lured away to foreign shoresCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
growing fears that English football players will be lured away to foreign shores (=time that a sailor is allowed to spend on land and away from work)· Hong Kong was a popular place for shore leave.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· We heard a call from a Distant shore.· It was so dark he could barely make out the tree line on the distant shore.· I want to go to distant shores.· I would pick more daisies. -- Nadine Stair Good reason to be off for distant shores.· When it rained their branches swayed and hissed with a sound like that of the ocean spilling over some distant shore.· How easy it was for people to disrupt your home and environment, even from distant shores.
· It does so when the eye catches the castle of Rapperswil towards the end of the lake on the eastern shore.· Almost overnight, it transformed this sleepy village on the eastern shores of Baja California Sur.· Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.· As the eastern shore of the future United States became the new landscape, it awaited the new pilgrims.· Meg sat facing him, looking across at the eastern shore.· As we rounded the lake's southern edge and moved up to the eastern shore, a faint tinkle filled the air.· Situated on the eastern shore of the lake with a backdrop of terraced vineyards, olive groves and cypress trees.· We are an odd collection assembled here, stuck fast like stubborn limpets to that eastern shore throughout the winter.
· Form 13 occurred on exposed shores, and form 18 in shelter; leaving the intermediates on shores of intermediate exposure.· Juveniles dominated the exposed shore and she thought few adults survived more than two years.· The unpredictable, sporadic nature of storms on an open coast presumably render exposed shores unstable in this respect.· As exposed shores are frequently subjected to almost continual spray this may not be critical.
· He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore.· Searchlights played on the water, sweeping the line of palms on the far shore.· Wigeon grazed on the far shore.· Off he went to the far shore, and with only ten minutes' rest set out again.· Moreover, the farther from shore a duck sleeps the greater the distance a cat must cover in its final uncovered dash.· But her fears were groundless: the generation gap in this instance had him beached on a far shore.· In other references dhamma is the raft on which men may cross the ocean of existence to the farther shore of Nirvana.· One day a figure appeared on the far shore.
· Your fish are safely tucked up at home - but then you see the fish of your dreams on some foreign shore.· That is, they all came from foreign shores and were, at first, alien.
· In the thirteenth century the bishop of Durham instigated extensive drainage works along the northern shores of the Humber.· It was the northern shore of Oahu.· From there a good road leads to Rapperswil and the northern shore of the Zurichsee.· It was certainly unique, such an Exhibition, so near the northern shore and the Pentland waves.
· On the opposite shore I saw two large gray black shapes: moose!· Once this fall was likened to a gigantic weir, its crest a straight line between Goat Island and the opposite shore.· He reached the opposite shore and then returned in a blaze of fireworks.· The sun has come to a standstill, hours above the river and the opposite shore.· Wind whipping across sandbar on opposite shore, sand blowing across water.
· This in turn compelled me to further investigate the fascinating world of rocky shores.· Miss Buechler is talking about the pilgrims coming to a rocky shore to spend a winter of hardship in the new land.· In the spring the clan chief's steward came ashore to find the last surviving woman on the rocky shore.· We make a beeline for the rocky shore.· Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.· The cliff sloped to a rocky shore where breakers thundered against the ledges about three hundred yards from where he was.· Landing safely on the rocky river shore, she endured a reprimand from a friend.· A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat.
· The sandy shore has hotel developments at one end.· The 1988 school year began with a sunrise breakfast and sing on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.· Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.· Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea.
· About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula.
· The column is in the pink granite of the quarries of Baveno on the western shore of Lake Maggiore.· Facing the town across the harbor on the western shore were hills 360 feet high.· Hotels and resorts along the western shores exploit the climate and the sea's salts and sulphur springs.· Thus, the eastern shore is saltier than the western shore.· Limone is a very old village nestling at the foot of the cliffs on the lake's western shore.· Enormous waves batter the archipelago's western shores, destroying beaches.
NOUN· The last of the shore birds will probably have arrived by this time.· Through this grey mist came fluttering a small shore bird.
· One word of advice: If the cruise line allows it, book your shore excursion before you get on the ship.· Select and book shore excursions as soon as possible.
· I go down to the sea shore to find white pebbles for games.· Our path dropped down to the relative calm of the sea shore, edging craggy inlets beneath overhanging cliff tops.· Or only like foam on the sea shore.· The black mud from the sea shores is said to be very good for the skin.
VERB· The waves breaking on the shore release plutonium, creating a radioactive mist which is then inhaled.· And afterwards he had lain in her arms as though they were a world away with the waves breaking on the shore outside.· Ranks of houses stretched away into the distance like waves breaking on a rocky shore, their slate roofs glistening.· Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles.· The dawning knowledge washed over her consciousness like waves breaking on a virgin shore.
· Twice a squall bowled him into the water as he followed the shore round.· You cross over to the mainland again on the Lady Craigavon Bridge and follow the lough shore to Corradillar quay.· From here it turns right to follow the shore until it reaches the mouth of the River Avich.· After dropping down towards Affric Lodge a good track follows the loch shore back to the car park.
· In a short half mile we would leave the Lake shore, and make for home along the gravel of the road.· More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.· Form 13 occurred on exposed shores, and form 18 in shelter; leaving the intermediates on shores of intermediate exposure.· Sea-birds were beginning to leave the shores and there were more seeding heads than flowers in bloom.· Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.· First one engine powered inflatable was heard to leave the shore in the direction of Guiding Lights.
· She struggled to turn around in it, desperate to reach the shore, no longer wanting to die.· On occasion the travellers had to leave their ferry and wade through mud to reach the shore.· But they reached the shore a few moments before Lucenzo.· As the two rowed away, the mob reached the shore.· The three who died are thought to have perished at least three days before they reached the shore, probably from dehydration.· May you lastly reach the shore, Joining tide without intent, Only worried any more By the currents' argument.
· I walked to the shore, thankful to be alive, unable to understand how.· As I walk back toward the shore I look over at the snorkeling boat heading out.· They were beings like Miach, a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest.· As she walks along the shore, Kruger gathers loose fishing line that has been tossed on the shore.· We walk down to the shore in the warm drizzling rain and wait at the quayside.· I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand.· I was again on the west side of the island and was walking along the shore.· In spring or autumn, the moon has sometimes tempted me out to walk the shore, confident of magical encounters.
· Many birds die and individuals are washed up on to the shore.· You could go over and see it, like a big whale washed up on the shore.· Men were herding mares and their foals away from the water, and a few women were washing clothes beside the shore.· Casting themselves into chaos, hoping to adhere to higher consciousness, to be washed up on the shores of truth.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[countable, uncountable] the land along the edge of a large area of water such as an ocean or lake: - Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride.
- His job was to show the captains of industry who came to these shores how to relax.
- In fact, nobody had made paved roads in Britain since the Romans left our shores.
- Meanwhile, beyond our shores, the world's industrial practices and capacities advanced.
- More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.
- The battle was lost, though, when many in high places yielded to pressures from beyond these shores.
- The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
- What would happen to us if 10,000 of them showed up on our shores?
We could see a boat about a mile from shore. Only a few survivors reached the shore. She began to swim to shore.on the shores of something a holiday resort on the shores of the Adriaticon shore We had a couple of hours on shore (=not on a ship).off shore The island is about three miles off shore (=away from the coast).rocky/sandy shore2these/British/our etc shores written a country that has a border on the sea: Millions of immigrants flocked to these shores in the 19th century. growing fears that English football players will be lured away to foreign shores → ashore, offshore, onshoreTHESAURUSshore the area of sand, mud, or low land along the edge of the sea, a lake etc: · I went down to the shore to meet him.· The fish is commonly found off the shores of Australia.· They had planned to take a picnic on the shores of Lake Havel.coast the land next to the sea: · He lives on the Sussex coast.· one of the most luxurious hotels on the south coast· the Draugen oil field, off the West coast of Norway· the East Coast of the United Statesbeach an area of sand or small stones at the edge of the sea: · Let's go to the beach.· Brighton beachthe seashore the land at the edge of the sea, consisting of sand or rocks: · He walked with her along the seashore.· You can hear the waves breaking on the seashore.the seaside British English the areas or towns next to the sea where people go to enjoy themselves: · We went on day trips to the seaside.· Oh I do love to be beside the seaside (=a line from a well-known song).· a seaside town· a seaside resortbank the land along the side of a river: · a journey along the banks of the River Ganges· He swam over to the other bank.· The river burst its banks.the waterfront the part of a town or an area of land next to the sea, a river etc – used especially when talking about buildings near the water: · The restaurant is down on the waterfront.· a waterfront bar in Montreal called The Neptunethe waterside (also the lakeside, the riverside) the area at the edge of a lake, river etc: · The mountains almost come down to the waterside.· a rented villa on the lakeside· A number of barges were hidden in the trees along the riverside.· beautiful riverside viewsshore1 nounshore2 verb
shoreshore2 verb shore something ↔ up phrasal verb1to support a wall or roof with large pieces of wood, metal etc to stop it from falling down: The roof had been shored up with old timbers.2to help or support something that is likely to fail or is not working well SYN bolster: attempts to shore up the struggling economy