foreshore

English

Etymology

From fore +‎ shore or fore- +‎ shore.

Noun

foreshore (plural foreshores)

The part of a shore between high water and low water, especially the beach exposed at maximum ebb spring tides.
- 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country (page 397)
  It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.

Synonyms

intertidal zone
tidal zone

Related terms

backshore

Translations

part of a beach

Finnish: vuorovesivyöhyke
French: estran (fr) m (Europe), batture (fr) f (Quebec)
German: Wattenmeer (de)
Greek: αλίπεδο n (alípedo)

Irish: urthrá f
Italian: bagnasciuga (it) m, battigia (it) f
Maori: taihua, matāwhanga, ara o Hinekirikiri

Anagrams

forehorse

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