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Definition: Shore |
ShoreAdjective1. Of or on or relating to the seashore; "seashore resorts"; "a shore dinner"; "a marine on shore duty". Noun1. The land along the edge of a body of water (a lake or ocean or river). 2. A beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support. Verb1. Serve as a shore to; "The river was shored by trees". 2. Arrive on shore; of ships. 3. Support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Shore \Shore\, noun. [Old English schore, Anglo-Saxon score, probably from scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to Old Dutch schoore, schoor. See Shear, transitive verb]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A prop(as a timber)placed against the side of a structure; a prop(as a beam)placed beneath something to prevent sinking or sagging. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Shore (Jane). Sir Thomas More says, "She was well-born, honestly brought up, and married somewhat too soon to a wealthy yeoman." The tragedy of Jane Shore is by Nicholas Rowe. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Meteorology & Standards | A scale for comparing hardness. Higher Shore values represent harder materials. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | A prop or support placed against or beneath anything to prevent sinking or sagging. (references) |
Statistics | Mode of fishing comprised of pier, dock, jetty, breakwater, breachway, bridge, causeway, beach and bank. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| sh con | English | Shore connection | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ShoreSynonyms: seashore(a) (adj), shore(a) (adj), shoring (n), land (v), prop (v), prop up (v), set ashore (v), shore up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: shoreline (geography), stand-in (food & agriculture, mechanical engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approach | Verb: approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue; tread on the heels of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land. |
Danger | Aux abois, at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on the rocks. |
Death | Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore. |
Defense | Buttress, abutment; shore; (support). |
Edge | Threshold, door, porch; portal; (opening); coast, shore. |
Hope | Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored. |
Land | Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon. |
Adverb: ashore; on shore, on land. | |
Navigation | Navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate. |
Pitfall | Noun: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt, syrtis; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead. |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Make sure the body doesn't wash up on shore. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story for she will be my heroine for all time (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) November, 1964, Dutch East Indies, shore leave (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) Dash into shore, cut across shipping lanes (The Perfect Storm; writing credit: William D. Wittliff) Searching for a boy in high school is like searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) | |
Lyrics | Until You Reach The Shore (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) Or leave tonight and vanish up the shore. (At The Stars; performing artist: Better Than Ezra) Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore (Allentown; performing artist: Billy Joel) We'll meet beyond the shore (Beyond the Sea; performing artist: Bobby Darin) And now you're swimming for the shore (I'll Be There For You; performing artist: Bon Jovi) | |
Clever | Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | To All My Friends on Shore (1972) Lonely Shore (1964) Stranger on the Shore (1960) The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956) Red River Shore (1953) | |
Song Titles | Stranger On The Shore (Instrumental) (performing artist: Mr. Acker Bilk) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown is a woman in shorts and t-shirt running along a lake shore. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | "Tsunami at the Shore Simulation" (movie) by Сергей Бирюков (Sergei Biryukov). |
 | Walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens - swimming close to shore. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Brown bear - Ursus arctos - on the shore of the Beaufort Sea. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Carrying lumber up rift in cliffs at east end of Amlia Island Note boat at beach - shore party shows as barely visible specks at top of photo Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Coral reef on south shore of American Samoa. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Looking west along the south shore of Lake Michigan. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Looking east to electric power plant on the south shore of Lake Michigan. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Eskimo diversion - flying high above the shore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Ice along the shore at Cross Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Shore Waves" by Tom Spitznas Commentary: "A nice shot of the beach with waves and a rock jetty." | "The Shore" by Jessica Sjöö Commentary: "Newly built houses on the shore in Malmö, Sweden." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Ocean shore and flying object sounds with a digital melody in the background. | | Shore birds cawing while waves lap onto the beach. |
| Shore birds cawing while water ripples nearby. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Dante Alighieri | And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. |
John Archibald Wheeler | We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. |
John Florio | Praise the sea; on shore remain. |
John Keats | Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! |
Matthew Arnold | Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. |
Sarah Orne Jewett | Wrecked on the lee shore of age. |
Steven Wright | There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. |
Virgil | Naked in death upon an unknown shore. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The boundaries of East Prussia, with the reservations made in Section IX (East Prussia) of Part III, will be determined as follows: from a point on the coast of the Baltic Sea about 1 1/2 kilometres north of Probbernau church in a direction of about 159° East from true North: a line to be fixed on the ground for about 2 kilometres; thence in a straight line to the light at the bend of the Elbing Channel in approximately latitude 54° 19 1/2' North, longitude 19° 26' East of Greenwich; thence to the easternmost mouth of the Nogat River at a bearing of approximately 209° East from true North; thence up the course of the Nogat River to the point where the latter leaves the Vistula (Weichsel);thence up the principal channel of navigation of the Vistula, then the southern boundary of the Kreis of Marienwerder, then that of the Kreis of Rosenberg eastwards to the point where it meets the old boundary of East Prussia, thence the old boundary between East and West Prussia, then the boundary between the Kreise of Osterode and Neidenburg, then the course of the river Skottau downstream, then the course of the Neide upstream to a point situated about 5 kilometres west of Bialutten being the nearest point to the old frontier of Russia; thence in an easterly direction to a point immediately south of the intersection of the road Neidenburg-Mlava with the old frontier of Russia: a line to be fixed on the ground passing north of Bialutten; thence the old frontier of Russia to a point east of Schmalleningken, then the principal channel of navigation of the Niemen (Memel) downstream, then the Skierwieth arm of the delta to the Kurisches Haff; thence a straight line to the point where the eastern shore of the Kurische Nehrung meets the administrative boundary about 4 kilometres south-west of Nidden; thence this administrative boundary to the western shore of the Kurische Nehrung. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Naught to do with Mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow, He that doth naught with her, excepting one, Were best to do it secretly alone |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom stood up and waded to the sandy shore. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But now I had made my home by the shore. |
The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Paddock, C.D., Sumner, J.W., Shore, G.M., Bartley, D.C., Elie, R.C., McQuade, J.G., Martin, C.R., Goldsmith, C.S., & Childs, J.E. (1997). Isolation and characterization of Ehrlichia chaffeensis strains from patients with fatal ehrlichiosis. (references) | |
Economic History | Fiji | The larger islands contain mountains as high as 1,200 meters (4,000 ft.) rising abruptly from the shore. (references) |
Egypt | Natural gas is found mainly in the Nile Delta, off the Mediterranean sea shore, and in the Western Desert. (references) | |
Uganda | An international airport is at Entebbe on the shore of Lake Victoria, some 32 kilometers (20 mi.) south of Kampala. (references) | |
Human Rights | Solomon Islands | In September 1999, several paramilitary police officers in a speedboat shot and injured a man near shore; they followed him onto the shore, dragged him back into the water, and reportedly beat him to death with a paddle. (references) |
Political Economy | Azerbaijan | Located on the western shore of the Caspian on the Apsheron peninsula, the capital city of Baku is poised to become a regional transportation and communications hub for the Caucasus and Central Asia. (references) |
Travel | West Bank | Since the establishment of the PA, a number of new and pleasant restaurants have sprung up along the Gaza shore. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Hathaway kept everything close to the vest because if she let it all go she'd be trying to talk Miss Ellie into sharing a hotel room in Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic and they'd have to cancel the show. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Shore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.03% of the time. "Shore" is used about 1,762 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) | 82.03% | 1,445 | 5,590 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.02% | 212 | 20,813 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.84% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,762 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shore" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shore | Last name | 3,000 | 4,190 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "shore". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shuphim | N/A | Biblical | Their shore |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Shore Capital Group plc | USA | North Shore Gas Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Shore, OH |
Expressions using "shore": along the shore ♦ bank shore ♦ bay Shore ♦ belleair Shore ♦ claw off shore ♦ clear Lake Shore ♦ come to the shore ♦ embayed shore ♦ Fore shore ♦ go on shore ♦ hug the shore ♦ in shore ♦ Jersey Shore ♦ lake shore ♦ Lee shore ♦ my native shore ♦ native shore ♦ North Bay Shore ♦ off shore ♦ on a lee shore ♦ on shore ♦ pebbly shore ♦ Pine Knoll Shore ♦ safe shore ♦ sandy shore ♦ Shore Acres ♦ shore battery ♦ shore bird ♦ shore birds ♦ shore bombardment line ♦ shore boulder ♦ shore cod ♦ shore crab ♦ shore dinner ♦ shore duty ♦ shore gangway ♦ shore lark ♦ shore leave ♦ shore line effect ♦ shore party ♦ shore patrol ♦ shore pine ♦ shore plover ♦ shore seine ♦ shore snipe ♦ shore station ♦ shore teetan ♦ shore up ♦ South Shore ♦ strike out for the shore ♦ stygian shore ♦ Table shore ♦ To lie along the shore ♦ weather shore ♦ West Bay Shore ♦ within a league of the shore. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shore": shore-bank, shore-based, shore-bound, shore-break, shore-caught, shore-dwelling, shore-foam, shore-leave, shore-line, shore-lines, shore-mud, shore-nesting, shore-notably, shore-power, shore-sea, shore-side. | |
Ending with "shore": near-shore, off-shore, on-shore. | |
Containing "shore": in-shore patrol, off-shore wind, ship-to-shore movement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gulf shore | 3,970 | shore washington | 216 |
gulf shore alabama | 3,289 | shore fishing | 213 |
shore | 2,654 | gulf shore alabama hotel | 211 |
gulf shore al | 2,529 | hospital shore south | 204 |
jersey shore | 912 | gulf shore condo rental | 198 |
ocean shore washington | 746 | news north shore | 188 |
new jersey shore | 619 | music north shore theater | 187 |
gulf shore condo | 607 | aston kaanapali shore | 183 |
ocean shore | 530 | south shore plaza | 182 |
saint clair shore michigan | 514 | south shore music circus | 180 |
gulf shore hotel | 503 | north shore bank | 172 |
gulf shore rental | 470 | nj shore | 167 |
north shore | 449 | new jersey shore rental | 166 |
bay shore ny | 386 | gulf shore ala | 163 |
north shore animal league | 371 | sherkston shore | 161 |
boarding house north shore | 364 | jersey shore rental | 159 |
nashville shore | 331 | poipu shore | 157 |
gulf shore plantation | 321 | pauly shore | 155 |
north shore community college | 282 | gulf shore vacation rental | 155 |
pacific shore inn | 230 | atlantic shore resort | 155 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "shore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kus (coast, kiss, seaside), oewer (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
Albanian | tokë (coat, continent, country, deck, dirt, domain, earth, Glebe, ground, holding, land, marl, pool, soil, stead, Terra, terrain), pajandroj (underpin), pajandër (strut), mbaj me pajandra, mbështetëse (backrest, bearer, bracket, buttress, console, crutch, prop, rack, reinforcement, rest, saddle, stanchion, stand, support, supporter), mbështet (abet, adhere, back, back up, build, buttress, countenance, found, hold up, lean, pillow, prop up, push, support, sustain, uphold), mbështes (lean, pillow, prop up, push, support, sustain, uphold), dal në breg (haul), bregdet (beach, coast, littoral, seaboard, seacoast, seafront, seashore, seaside, waterside), breg (bank, bar, brow, coast, height, hill, hump, knoll, side, strand), çandër. (various references) | |
Arabic | سند (back, backlog, bolster, instrument, obligation, policy, prop, repose, script, support, sustenance), ساحل (coast, seacoast, seaside, strand), ضفة (bank, edge, strand), شاطئ (beach, coast, margin), دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, prop, put up, reinforce, rest, second, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding), دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, prop, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references) | |
Aymara | qotalaca (lake shore). (various references) | |
Basque | ertz (back). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стрижа (clip, crop, shear, tip), на сушата, на брега, бряг (brink, edge, foreshore, front, side, strand, waterfront), брегови (coastal), подпора (abut, abutment, brace, bracing, bracket, counterfort, jamb, pillar, post, prop, puncheon, rest, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree, upright), подпирам (atlas, back, prop up, support, sustain, truss, underlay, underpin, uphold). (various references) | |
Catalan | costa (coast, costs, seaside). (various references) | |
Chinese | 岸 (bank, beach, coast). (various references) | |
Czech | pobřeží (beach, coast, coastal area, sea coast, seaboard, seaside, strand), břeh (bank, coast, side, strand). (various references) | |
Danish | kyst (coast, seaside), bred (bank, border, broad, edge). (various references) | |
Dutch | oever (bank, border, edge), wal (bank, border, edge, platform, quay, rampart, ring, wharf), kust (bank, border, coast, edge, seaside), kant (bank, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, lace, margin, rim, side), boord (bank, board, border, brim, brink, collar, edge, edging, fringe, rim). (various references) | |
Esperanto | marbordo (coast, seaside), bordo (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
Faeroese | strond (bank, beach, border, edge). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرودامدن (Alight, Descend, Ground, Perch), کناردریا (Beach), کرانه (Littoral, Mete, Strand), ترساندن (Abhor, Affray, Appall, Awe, Bash, Buffalo, Cow, Daunt, Deter, Feeze, Fray, Fright, Horrify, Huff, Intimidate, Scare, Spook, Threat, Tremble), ساحل (Bank, Beach, Coast, Littoral), بساحل رتفن . (various references) | |
Finnish | ranta (bank, beach, border, edge, strand), rannikko (coast). (various references) | |
French | rive, bord, rivage (shoreline), côte, accore, étançon (shank), étai. (various references) | |
Frisian | igge (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
German | Küste (bank, border, coast, coastline, edge, seaboard, seaside, shoreline, waterside), Gestade (bank, border, coast, edge), Ufer (bank, border, edge, shoreline, waterfront, waterside, watersides), strebe (brace, joist, strut), Strand (bank, beach, border, edge, foreshore, seashore, seaside, strand, waterfront). (various references) | |
Greek | ακτή (beach, coast, sea board, sea coast, sea), seaside, shore (lake, strand). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bregdet (coast, seaside). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוף (bank of a river, beach, coast, strand). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tengerpart (beach, coast, coastline, littoral, sea coast, seaboard, seashore, sea-shore, seaside), tópart (bank, beach, lakeside), támoszlop (shoulder), támaszfeszítő dúc, part (bank, beach, coast, land, margin, rive, strand). (various references) | |
Icelandic | strönd (beach, coast, seaside). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pantai (beach, coast, ocean front, strand), darat (hinterland, land, upland). (various references) | |
Italian | costa (coast, coastline, does it cost, flange, it costs, rib, seaboard, seacoast, seaside), sponda (bank, edge, riverside, side), riva (bank, riverside, side). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 岸 (bank, coast). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がんとう (sugar content, the whole island, top of a massive rock, wharf), なぎさ (beach, water's edge), しょはん (circumstances, first edition, first offender, first offense, waterside), きし (bank, banner, coast, emblem, ensign, exposing a corpse in the city, flag, knight, last child, saving from the brink of death, shogi player, sixth of the sexagenary cycle, term of respect in addressing ladies or anothers older sister, your columns, your honored paper, your journal, your magazine, your paper), いそ (beach, seashore), りくがん (land), りくじょう (ground, land), りく (agony of separation, land), みぎわ (water's edge), えんがん (as if, charming, coast, far-sightedness), えんかい (banquet, coast, coastal waters, deep sea, inshore, ocean, party, postponementof meeting). (various references) | |
Korean | 해안 (Coast, Coastal, seaboard). (various references) | |
Manx | traie (beach, neap tide; cool, neap tide; cool of anger, recede; cooling, retreat, retreating, sandy seashore, strand), thalloo (clod, country, earth, ground, land, soil, terrain, territory), oirr ny marrey (margin of the sea, seaside). (various references) | |
Maya | haalik. (various references) | |
Occitan | broa (bank). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kosta (coast, cost, seaside), kantu (bank, border, edge), kanto (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oreshay.(various references) | |
Polish | wybrzeże (coast, seaside), brzeg (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
Portuguese | margem (balk, border, bottom, confines, edge, fringe, hem, inset, marge, margin, rand, rim, side, verge, water-front, waterside), costa (beach, coast, front, seashore, seaside, strand, waterside), litoral (coast, coastal, coastland, littoral, seaboard, seacoast, seashore, seaside), escora (anchor, bearer, bond, chock, prop, puncheon, spur, stanchion, stay). (various references) | |
Romanian | litoral (beach, coast, coastline, littoral, seaboard, sea-shore, seaside). (various references) | |
Russian | берег (bank, beach, coast, seaside, shoreland, shoreside, strand, water front, waterside). (various references) | |
Scottish | cladach (a shore, bank, border, coast, edge, seaside). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | primorje (coast, littoral), podupreti (bolster, brace, buttress, prop up, shore up, stay, support, truss, underlay, underpin), podupirač (brace, bracket, buttress, spur, stanchion, stay, strut, support, truss, underlay), obalni (coast, waterside), obala (coast, coastline, front, strand, waterside). (various references) | |
Shona | hombekombe. (various references) | |
Sicilian | spiaggia. (various references) | |
Spanish | costa (coast, cost, oceanfront, price, seashore, seaside), orilla (bank, border, brink, edge, hem, riverside, shoreline, side), ribera (bank, riverside, strand). (various references) | |
Sranan | syoro (bank, border, edge, platform, quay, wharf), sekanti (beach, coast, seaside), watrasey (bank, border, edge). (various references) | |
Swahili | pwani (coast, seaside). (various references) | |
Swedish | strand (bank, beach, border, edge, seafront, seaside, strand, waterside), kust (coast, coastal, seaboard, seacoast, seaside), stötta (chock, prop, stanchion, stick, strut, truss, underlay, underpin). (various references) | |
Turkish | sahil (bank, beach, coast, coastal, hurst, littoral, sea coast, seaboard, seashore, seaside, strand, waterside), sahíl (coast, seaside), payanda vurmak (timber), payanda (buttress, pier, pillar, pit prop, plank, prop, spur, standard, stock, strut, support), kiyi (coast, seaside), kara (black, earth, ground, ivory black, land, nigr-, overland, sable, smut, sooty, terra firma, territorial), kanıtlamak (attest, attest to, aver, be contented with, certify, demonstrate, document, establish, evidence, make smth. stick, prove, show, stamp, stand, substantiate, support, verify), kıyı (bank, brink, coast, edge, inshore, littoral, sea coast, side, strand, waterside), desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, prop, root for, second, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), destek olmak (arm, back, back up, bear up, bolster up, cooperate, roll a log for smb., see through, smile on, support), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder), deniz kenarı (coast, seaboard, seashore, seaside, waterside), deniz kıyısı (coast, seashore, seaside, waterside), dayanak (abutment, anchorage, base, fulcrum, ground, hinge, Mount, pivot, prop, rest, support). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сходити на берег (go ashore), вивантажувати (disembark, dump, empty, unship), обрамляти (encase), земля (earth, ground, land, mould, sod, soil, territory, universe), берег (bank, coast, strand, waterside), підпірка (backing, balk, chock, counterfort, pit prop, post, puncheon, stanchion, trellis, upholder), підпирати (back, brace, buttress, chock, prop, skid, stake, stanchion, strut, sustain, underlay, underpin, underset), прибійна смуга. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bữa ăn gồm toàn các thức tươi mới đánh được ở biển lên (shore dinner). (various references) | |
Welsh | traeth (beach, strand), glan (bank, brink). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | pi. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acta, litore, litoribus, littera, litus, ora, oram, oramque, oras, orei, oris, orta, orto. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ofer. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coste. (various references) |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | schor. (various references) |
| Middle Low German | 1100-1500 | schor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 6, Verse 53 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai diaperasanteV hlqon epi thn ghn genhsaret kai proswrmisqhsan |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum transfretassent pervenerunt in terram Gennesareth et adplicuerunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And þa hyo ofer-seigledon. hyo comento genesar. & þær wicoden. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne thei weren passid ouer the see, thei camen in to the lond of Genasareth, and settiden to loond. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they came over and went into the londe of Genezareth and drue vp into the haven. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when they had gone across, they came to Gennesaret, and got their boat to land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 6, Verse 53 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakatabok na sila, miabut sila sa yuta sa Genezaret ug midunggo sa baybayon. |
| Croatian | Pošto doploviše na kraj, doðu u Genezaret i pristanu. |
| Danish | Og da de vare farne over til Landet, kom de til Genezareth og lagde til der. |
| Dutch | En als zij overgevaren waren, kwamen zij in het land Gennesareth, en havenden aldaar. |
| Finnish | Ja kuljettuaan yli toiselle rannalle he tulivat Gennesaretiin ja laskivat maihin. |
| French | Après avoir traversé la mer, ils vinrent dans le pays de Génésareth, et ils abordèrent. |
| Gaelic | Agus nuair dh` aisig iad thairis, thainig iad gu talamh Ghenesareth, is tharruinn iad gu tir. |
| German | Und da sie hinübergefahren waren, kamen sie in das Land Genezareth und fuhren an. |
| Hungarian | És átkelve, eljutának a Genezáret földére, és kikötének. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Waktu tiba di seberang danau, mereka berlabuh di pantai Genesaret. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka menyeberanglah mereka itu, lalu sampai ke Genesaret dan berlabuh di sana. |
| Italian | Compiuta la traversata, approdarono e presero terra a Genèsaret. |
| Maori | A, no to ratou whitinga atu, ka tae ki te whenua o Kenehareta, ka herea te kaipuke ki uta. |
| Norwegian | Og da de hadde faret over, kom de til Gennesarets land og la til der. |
| Portuguese | E, terminada a travessia, chegaram à terra em Genezaré, e ali atracaram. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ce au trecut marea, au venit kn yinutul Ghenezaretului, wi au tras la mal. |
| Shuar | Nuyanka katinkiar, Jinisarít Núnkanam jeawarmiayi. Jeawar kanun ajuiniarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Y cuando cruzaron a la otra orilla, llegaron a la tierra de Genesaret y amarraron la barca. |
| Swahili | Walivuka ziwa, wakafika nchi ya Genesareti, wakatia nanga. |
| Swedish | När de hade farit över till andra stranden, kommo de till Gennesarets land och lade till där. |
| Uma | Karata-ra hi dipo rano, mencore-ramo hi tana' to rahanga' Genesaret. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shore": shorebird, shorebirds, shored, shorefront, shorefronts, shoreline, shorelines, shores, shoreside, shoreward, shorewards. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "shore": alongshore, ashore, foreshore, inshore, lakeshore, nearshore, offshore, onshore, seashore. (additional references) | |
Words containing "shore": foreshores, lakeshores, longshoreman, longshoremen, seashores. (additional references) | |
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"Shore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahorey, Msboro, phore, Phwore, Schori, Schorm, shareh, sharey, shere, shiraji, Shireh, shirey, shiro, shode, shoer, shoke, shome, shooe, shor, shora, shorae, shoreo, Shorey, Shorne, Shorney, shoro, shorte, shour, shoure, Shourie, showe, shrone, shuer, Shuhei, Shukri, shure, Shurey, Shurrup, siore, skore, slore, sphor, suore, Zhorik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shore" (pronounced shô"r) |
| 3 | sh ô" r | ashore, inshore, offshore. |
| 2 | -ô" r | abhor, adore, antiwar, anymore, before, boar, bore, chore, cor, core, corps, decor, deplore, door, Dore, Dorr, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, hardcore, heretofore, Hoar, ignore, implore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, or, ore, outpour, outscore, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, score, Senor, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, underscore, war, whore, wore, yore, your. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: heros, hoers, horse, shoer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: eros, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hose, ores, resh, rhos, roes, rose, shoe, sore. | |
-2 letters: ers, her, hes, hoe, oes, ohs, ore, ors, ose, res, rho, roe, ser, she. | |
-3 letters: eh, er, es, he, ho, oe, oh, or, os, re, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ahorse, ashore, chores, cosher, ephors, heroes, herons, hoarse, homers, honers, hopers, hordes, horsed, horses, horsey, horste, hosier, houser, hovers, josher, kosher, mosher, nosher, ochers, ochres, others, posher, reshod, reshoe, reshot, reshow, senhor, shoers, shored, shores, shover, shower, shrove, throes, whores. | |
+2 letters: bothers, cheeros, chokers, cholers, chooser, choreas, chouser, chromes, coheirs, coheres, coshers, dehorns, dehorts, earshot, echoers, exhorts, gophers, gorhens, hectors, heriots, heroics, heroins, heroism, heteros, hoarsen, hoarser, hoaxers, hockers, hoggers, hoister, holders, hollers, holster, hombres, honkers, hoofers, hookers, hoopers, hooters, hoppers, hornets, horsier, horstes, hosiers, hosiery, hostler, housers, howlers, inshore, joshers, koshers, moshers, mothers, noshers, ogreish, onshore, oraches, porches, pothers, preshow, rechose, rehouse, reshoes, reshone, reshoot, reshown, reshows, rheboks, rhetors, roaches, rochets, rotches, rouches, scherzo, senhora, senhors, sheroot, shoaler, shocker, shooter, shopper, shorted, shorten, shorter, shortie, shouter, shovers, showers, showery, showier, smother, soother, soroche, souther, strophe, thermos, thorpes, thrones, tochers, torches, troches, unhorse, uphroes, zorches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Cities | 21. Expressions 22. Expressions: Internet 23. Translations: Modern 24. Translations: Ancient | 25. Bible Trace 26. Abbreviations 27. Acronyms 28. Derivations | 29. Rhymes 30. Anagrams 31. Bibliography |
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