Usually means: Land edge bordering a body.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word shore:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. shore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shore: Merriam-Webster
  3. shore, shore, shore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shore, shore, shore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shore: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shore: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shore, shore: Wordnik
  8. shore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shore, shore: Wiktionary
  10. shore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shore: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shore: Dictionary.com
  14. shore (n.), shore (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shore (disambiguation), Shore, The Shore (band), The Shore (film), The Shore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shore: Rhymezone
  20. shore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Shore: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Shore: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. shore: FreeDictionary.org
  25. shore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. shore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. shore: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. shore: Legal dictionary
  4. shore: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shore: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SHORE: Acronym Finder
  4. shore: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shore: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. shore: The Folk File
  3. shore: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
noun:  (from the perspective of one on a body of water) Land, usually near a port.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To arrive at the shore
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To put ashore.
noun:  A prop or strut supporting some structure or weight above it.
verb:  Not followed by up: to provide (something) with support.
verb:  Usually followed by up: to reinforce (something at risk of failure).
noun:  (obsolete except Scotland) A sewer.
verb:  To threaten or warn (someone).
verb:  To offer (someone).
noun:  A topographic surname from Middle English.
noun:  A place in England:
noun:  A suburb of Littleborough, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD9216).
noun:  A hamlet near Cornholme in Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SD9126).
adverb:  Pronunciation spelling of sure. [(modal adverb) Without doubt, certainly.]

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