Coastguard

Definition: Coastguard

Coastguard

Noun

1. A military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters.

Date "coastguard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Crosswords: Coastguard

English words defined with "coastguard": coastguardsman. (references)

Specialty definitions using "coastguard": Moon-rakers. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Coastguard (1922)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Coastguard : an official history of HM Coastguard (reference) Deeds not words : the story of the New Zealand Coastguard (reference) Shipminder: the story of Her Majesty's Coastguard (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Coastguard (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Coastguard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.94% of the time. "Coastguard" is used about 136 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	77.94%	106	31,637
Noun (proper)	22.06%	30	63,341
Total	100.00%	136	N/A

Expression using "coastguard": coastguard station. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "coastguard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rojë bregdetare. (various references)

Arabic		‏خفير السواحل, ‏خفر السواحل. (various references)

Bulgarian		брегова охрана. (various references)

Czech		pobřežní policie, pobřežní hlídka. (various references)

Finnish		rannikkovartiosto, merivartiosto. (various references)

French		gendarmerie maritime, garde-côtes (coastguards), garde de côte. (various references)

German		rettungsstation (coastguard station, first aid post, lifeboat station, rescue center). (various references)

Greek		ακτοφυλακή (coast guard). (various references)

Hebrew		משמר �"חופים. (various references)

Indonesian		penjaga pantai. (various references)

Italian		guardacoste (patrol boat). (various references)

Manx		arreyder coose. (various references)

Pig Latin		oastguardcay

Russian		береговая охрана (coastal command). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obalska straža. (various references)

Spanish		guardacostas (coastguards). (various references)

Swedish		sjöräddning (sea rescue). (various references)

Ukrainian		берегова охорона. (various references)

Vietnamese		tổ chức bảo vệ miền ven biển lính tuần phòng bờ biển. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "coastguard": coastguardman, coastguardmen, coastguards, coastguardsman, coastguardsmen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: sugarcoat.
	-2 letters: dogcarts, outdrags.
	-3 letters: costard, cougars, crusado, custard, daturas, dogcart, dustrag, ostraca, outdrag, ragouts, saguaro, surcoat, turacos.
	-4 letters: acarus, actors, agoras, aortas, argots, carats, cargos, castor, costar, cougar, courts, datura, douras, ducats, durocs, gators, gourds, gradus, groats, grouts, guacos, guards, octads, outgas, ragout, rugosa, scrota, soucar, stroud, tarocs, tragus, turaco.
	-5 letters: actor, adust, agars.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-g-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: coastguards, sugarcoated.
	+3 letters: coastguardman, coastguardmen.
	+4 letters: coastguardsman, coastguardsmen.
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