Definition of 'beach'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present
tense beaches
, present participle beaching
, past tense, past participle beached
2. verb
If something such as a boat beaches, or if it is beached, it is
pulled or forced out of the water and onto land.
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beach in British English
noun
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Word origin
C16: perhaps related to Old English bæce river, beck2Word Frequency
beach in American English
verb transitive, verb intransitive
3.
to ground (a boat) on a beach
SIMILAR WORDS: shore
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Word origin
E dial., orig., pebbles, shingle < ?
Word Frequency
beach in American English
(bitʃ)
noun
1.
an
expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore
transitive verb
4. Nautical
to haul or run onto a beach
We beached the ship to save it
5.
to make
inoperative or
unemployed
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Derived forms
beachless adjective
Word origin
[1525–35; of obscure orig.]Examples of 'beach' in a sentence
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beach
British English: beach
/biːtʃ/ NOUN
A beach is an area of sand or pebbles by the sea.
...a beautiful sandy beach.
- American English: beach
- Arabic: شاطِئ
- Brazilian Portuguese: praia
- Chinese: 海滩
- Croatian: plaža
- Czech: pláž
- Danish: strand
- Dutch: strand
- European Spanish: playa
- Finnish: hiekkaranta
- French: plage
- German: Strand
- Greek: παραλία
- Italian: spiaggia
- Japanese: 浜辺
- Korean: 바닷가
- Norwegian: strand
- Polish: plaża
- European Portuguese: praia
- Romanian: plajă
- Russian: пляж
- Latin American Spanish: playa
- Swedish: strand
- Thai: ชายหาด
- Turkish: kumsal
- Ukrainian: пляж
- Vietnamese: bãi biển
British English: beach VERB
If something such as a boat beaches, or if it is beached, it is pulled or forced out of the water and onto land.
We beached the canoe, running it right up the bank.
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