Definitions for beaches

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beaches beach

Spelling: [beech]

IPA: /bitʃ/

Beaches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in beaches (abceehs).

Definitions for beaches

noun

1. an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.
2. the part of the shore of an ocean, sea, large river, lake, etc., washed by the tide or waves.
3. the area adjacent to a seashore:
4. Alfred Ely, 1826–96, U.S. editor, publisher, and inventor.
5. Amy Marcey Cheney [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), 1867–1944, U.S. composer and pianist.
6. Moses Yale, 1800–68, U.S. newspaper publisher.
7. Rex Ellingwood [el-ing-woo d] /ˈɛl ɪŋˌwʊd/ (Show IPA), 1877–1949, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
8. Sylvia Woodbridge, 1887–1962, U.S. bookseller and publisher in France.

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to haul or run onto a beach:
2. to make inoperative or unemployed.

Origin of beaches

First recorded in 1525-35; of obscure origin

Examples for beaches

The children were lingering on the beach when Edward came that day.

They were left on the beach without any guard, or any one near them.

The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.

The city protests that a beach is not a suitable place to feed the hungry.

Are you the kind of criminal who runs down the beach at night wielding a knife and stabbing every woman you pass?

Dinner was a baroque affair, on the beach, a warm breeze gently blowing.

One of the three, Ralph Goodwin, is said to have drowned while swimming at a beach outside Havana.

There are no horses on this beach, and we cannot walk to Granada in our state.

The children gathered round the curious object on the beach.

On Labor Day weekend, the teenager accompanied Shattuck, her three children, and several of their friends to Bethany beach.