How do you pronounce beach?

The recorded pronunciation is /biːt͡ʃ/.

Where does beach come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

beach

/biːt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.92 in modern English

Syllables: beach
IPA: /biːt͡ʃ/

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Meaning

noun

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

noun

A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

noun

The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.

British usage

noun

Synonym of gravel trap.

noun

A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.

noun

Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).

verb

To run aground on a beach.

Intransitive verb

verb

To run (something) aground on a beach.

Transitive verb

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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“flowing water”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian pach (“brook, creek, stream”), Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), German Low German Beek (“brook, stream”), Luxembourgish Baach (“brook, stream”), Mòcheno pòch (“brook, creek, stream”), Vilamovian bāh, baoch (“brook, stream”), Danish bæk (“brook”), Icelandic bekkur (“creek, spring, stream”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bekk (“brook, creek, stream”), Swedish bäck (“brook, creek, stream”); also Lithuanian banga (“billow, wave”). More at batch, beck.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: bache, bæcche, beċe, *baki, *bakiz, *bʰeg-, -

Usage

Inflected Forms

beaches (plural) beaches (present, singular) beaching (participle, present) beached (participle, past) beached (past) Beachs (plural)

Derived Forms

backbeach Beach beachball beachberry beachbound beachboy beachcam beachcast beachcomber beachcombing beachfront beachful

Phrases

Airlie Beach Aldinga Beach American Beach Apollo Beach Arizona's beach Armstrong Beach Avalon Beach Avoca Beach

Synonyms

gravel trap backshore sand strand

Homonyms

beech

Rhymes With

each reach speech teach breach peach preach bleach beech leach leech impeach

beach

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