Usually means: Parallel to the coastline direction.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. alongshore: Merriam-Webster
  2. alongshore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alongshore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alongshore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alongshore: Wordnik
  6. alongshore: Wiktionary
  7. alongshore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. alongshore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. alongshore: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Alongshore, alongshore: Dictionary.com
  11. Alongshore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. alongshore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Alongshore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. alongshore: FreeDictionary.org
  15. alongshore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. alongshore: Merriam-Webster

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alongshore: BEACH-NET! (fishing)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alongshore)

▸ adverb:  At or along a shore or coast.
▸ adjective:  At or along a shore or coast.

Similar:
coastally, ashore, coastwise, shoreward, coastwards, aboard, intracoastally, oceanwise, intercoastally, shorelessly, more...

Opposite:
offshore, out to sea, away from coast

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Similar:
coastally, ashore, coastwise, shoreward, coastwards, aboard, intracoastally, oceanwise, intercoastally, shorelessly, more...

Opposite:
offshore, out to sea, away from coast



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