coast
/koʊst/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.87 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches."
- "a town on the coast of Trinidad"
- "It'd be roughly on par with 2003's Bouchard No. 120 oil spill, in which an estimated 98,000 gallons spilled into Buzzards Bay off the coast of Bourne, Massachusetts."
- "And the Coaſt towards which the lines KL and VX are drawn, may be call’d the Coaſt of unuſual Refraction."
- "Then Herod perceavynge that he was moocked off the wyse men, was excedynge wroth, and sent forth and slue all the chyldren that were in bethleem, and in all the costes thereof […]"
- "P. Crescentius, in his lib. 1 de agric. cap. 5, is very copious in this subject, how a house should be wholesomely sited, in a good coast, good air, wind, etc."
Etymology
From Middle English coste (“rib; side of the body”), from Old French coste (“rib; side of an object; coast”) (modern French côte (“rib; coast; hill, slope”)), from Latin costa (“rib; side, wall”). Doublet of costa. Compare typologically cape < Latin caput, ness (akin to nose), Bulgarian нос (nos, “nose; …; cape, promontory, foreland, gore”), Macedonian ’рт (’rt), Serbo-Croatian рт (“cape, promontory, headland”) < Proto-Slavic *rъtъ (whence Russian рот (rot)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /koʊst/
- British English: /kəʊst/
Usage
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Frequently Paired Words
coast fox
coast guard
coast rat
the coast is clear
West Coast of Canada
Lower Mainland
British Columbia Interior
BC Interior
Synonyms
hug the coastline
British Columbia Coast
BC Coast
B.C. Coast
B. C. Coast
Coast of British Columbia
Coast of BC
Coast of B.C.
Coast of B. C.