Definitions for coast

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coast coast

Spelling: [kohst]

IPA: /koʊst/

Coast is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in coast (acost).

Definitions for coast

noun

1. the land next to the sea; seashore:
2. the region adjoining it:
3. a hill or slope down which one may slide on a sled.
4. a slide or ride down a hill or slope, as on a sled.
5. Obsolete. the boundary or border of a country.
6. the Coast, Informal. (in the U.S. and Canada) the region bordering on the Pacific Ocean; the West Coast:

Idioms

1. the coast is clear, no danger or impediment exists; no persons are in the path or vicinity:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to move along under acquired momentum:
2. to proceed along or near the coast of.
3. Obsolete. to keep alongside of (a person moving).
4. Obsolete. to go by the side or border of.

verb (used without object)

1. to slide on a sled down a snowy or icy hillside or incline.
2. to descend a hill or the like, as on a bicycle, without using pedals.
3. to continue to move or advance after effort has ceased; keep going on acquired momentum:
4. to advance or proceed with little or no effort, especially owing to one's actual or former assets, as wealth, position, or name, or those of another:
5. to sail along, or call at the various ports of, a coast.
6. Obsolete. to proceed in a roundabout way.

Origin of coast

1325-75; (noun) Middle English cost(e) Anglo-French, Middle French Latin costa rib, side, wall; (v.) Middle English cost(e)yen, costen Anglo-French costeier, Old French costoier, derivative o

Examples for coast

We began the 19th century with a choice, to spread our nation from coast to coast.

The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.

By 2008, his planes were shuttling staff and surgical equipment from coast to coast.

Oh, if you had only told me what had happened that evening on the coast!

Orion will orbit Earth twice before splashing down off the California coast.

I got up first on the wall to make sure the coast was clear.

Scene changes to an inn on the coast within a few yards of Paris.

In addition to Cornyn and Abbott, George P. Bush will likely coast to victory.

Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad.

You use fuel to give you the proper velocity and direction, and then you turn off your fuel tanks and coast there.