Definitions for onshore

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onshore on·shore

Spelling: [on-shawr, -shohr, awn-]

IPA: /ˈɒnˈʃɔr, -ˈʃoʊr, ˈɔn-/

Onshore is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in onshore (ehnoors).

Definitions for onshore

adverb

1. onto or in the direction of the shore from a body of water:
2. in or on a body of water, close to or parallel with the shore:
3. on land, especially within the area adjoining a port; ashore:

adjective

1. moving or proceeding toward shore or onto land from a body of water:
2. located on or close to the shore:
3. done or taking place on land:

Origin of onshore

First recorded in 1870-75; on + shore¹

Examples for onshore

onshore, we had the sail spread so as to shelter us against the wind and dew.

When we got on board the boat, we found that all the women had taken refuge in it, thinking that they had seen Indians onshore.

It would support efforts to “onshore” production and leverage private capital to modernize transport and other public systems.

Undoubtedly an onshore wind and a flood-tide bring sand into the lower reaches, for the men find it in the dredges.

Many a time I had to clear off the land, so to speak, against an onshore gale with my barge and family.

"Watchin' out for evidence in a law case, probably," growled Cap'n Sproul, the fear of onshore artfulness ever with him.

Wilmar, however, claimed that onshore turbines are less reliant on subsidies and more cost-effective than those built in the sea.