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coastline

coastline

English

Noun

coastline ‎(plural coastlines)

The shape, outline, or boundary of a coast.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Episode 12
  Tarbarrels and bonfires were lighted along the coastline of the four seas on the summits of the Hill of Howth, Three Rock Mountain, Sugarloaf, Bray Head, the mountains of Mourne, the Galtees, the Ox and Donegal and Sperrin peaks, the Nagles and the Bograghs, the Connemara hills, the reeks of M’Gillicuddy, Slieve Aughty, Slieve Bernagh and Slieve Bloom.

Translations

the shape of a coast

Bulgarian: брегова линия f ‎(bregová línija)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 海岸線 (zh), 海岸线 (zh) ‎(hǎi'ànxiàn)
Danish: kystlinje (da) c
Dutch: kustlijn (nl) c
Esperanto: marbordo
Finnish: rantaviiva
French: rive (fr) f, littoral (fr) m
German: Küstenlinie (de) f

Japanese: 海岸線 ‎(かいがんせん, kaigansen)
Maori: tahatika, tātika
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kystlinje m, f

Nynorsk: kystline f, kystlinje f
Papiamentu: kosta
Portuguese: linha costeira f
Romanian: coastă (ro) f, litoral (ro) n
Russian: берегова́я ли́ния f ‎(beregovája línija)
Spanish: línea costera f
Swedish: kustlinje c

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