Usually means: Boundary where land meets sea.
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  1. coastline: Merriam-Webster
  2. coastline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coastline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coastline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coastline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coastline, coastline: Wordnik
  7. coastline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coastline: Wiktionary
  9. coastline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coastline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coastline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coastline: Dictionary.com
  13. coastline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Coastline, The Coastline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. coastline: Rhymezone
  16. coastline: FreeDictionary.org
  17. coastline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. coastline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. coastline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. coastline: Legal dictionary

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  1. coastline: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast. (The term coastline is generally used to describe the approximate boundaries at relatively large spatial scales.)

Similar:
cliffline, shoreline, contour, line, outline, cape, edge, littoral, strandline, profile, more...

Opposite:
inland, interior, hinterland

Types:
rocky, sandy, pebbly, muddy, silt, more...

Phrases:
Coastline paradox, Coastline of the United Kingdom, Coastline of Australia, Coastline of Norway, Coastline of Brazil, more...

Adjectives:
long, entire, atlantic, rocky, southern, rugged, northern, eastern, western, whole, mediterranean

Colors:
    turquoise,     aqua,     seafoam,     teal,     sky blue, more...



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Similar:
cliffline, shoreline, contour, line, outline, cape, edge, littoral, strandline, profile, more...

Opposite:
inland, interior, hinterland

Types:
rocky, sandy, pebbly, muddy, silt, more...

Phrases:
Coastline paradox, Coastline of the United Kingdom, Coastline of Australia, Coastline of Norway, Coastline of Brazil, Coastline Community College, coastline mooring place, shaped like a coastline, more...

Adjectives:
long, entire, atlantic, rocky, southern, rugged, northern, eastern, western, whole, mediterranean

Colors:
    turquoise,     aqua,     seafoam,     teal,     sky blue, more...



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