coastland

[ kohst-land ]

noun

1. land along a coast; seacoast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coastland¹

First recorded in 1850–55; coast + land

Example Sentences

We are losing a football field of coastland every 38 minutes in Louisiana.

From The Daily Beast

On the Atlantic coastland of Patagonia it is often three, four or five days' ride to the nearest farm.

From Project Gutenberg

Fishermen and their guides may continue to use the coastland for their fishing activities despite the trespass to landowners.

From Project Gutenberg

The coastland was known to the Greeks and Romans as Phoenicia, "the land of the palm."

From Project Gutenberg

Would he now learn the purpose driving Thorvald on to this coastland?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bank
• beach
• border
• coast
• riverbank
• sand
• seaboard
• seashore
• waterfront