Definition of Seaboard

1. Noun. The shore of a sea or ocean regarded as a resort.

Exact synonyms: Seaside
Generic synonyms: Coast, Sea-coast, Seacoast, Seashore

Definition of Seaboard

1. n. The seashore; seacoast.

2. a. Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

3. adv. Toward the sea.

Definition of Seaboard

1. Noun. The area bordering the sea; a coastline. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seaboard

1. the seacoast [n -S] - See also: seacoast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaboard

seabase
seabases
seabeach
seabeach sandwort
seabeaches
seabeard
seabed
seabeds
seaberries
seaberry
seabird
seabirds
seablite
seablites
seaboard (current term)
seaboards
seaboat
seaboats
seaboot
seaboots
seaborgate
seaborgates
seaborgium
seaborgiums
seaborn
seaborne
seabound
seabuckthorn
seacalf

Literary usage of Seaboard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Petition by the seaboard Air Line Railway Company and others against the United States and others, to enjoin an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"seaboard AIR LINE BY. (106 SE) Issue a necessary denial, by Implication, ... seaboard AIRLINE RY.etal. (No. 99.) (Supreme Court of North Carolina. ..."

3. The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1904)
"Before much actual work had been done it became clear to the company that it was not from the Butler oil field but from that of Bradford that a seaboard ..."

4. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"THE seaboard REGION lies along the coast or but a short distance inland. It has an elevation of from 10 to 100 feet above the sea-level. ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"seaboard Air Line R. Co. 165 NC 99, 80 SE 1078. As to pleading and procedure, the courts of each state must necessarily pursue their own statutory methods. ..."

6. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"CHAPTER XIII seaboard MARITIME OPERATIONS UON the Canada frontier the conditions ... Upon the seaboard, continuous illustration was afforded that there the ..."

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