beach

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see also: Beach

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /bit͡ʃ/
• (RP) IPA: /biːt͡ʃ/

Noun

beach (plural beaches)

1. The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
2. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
3. (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.

Synonyms

• (horizontal strip of land adjoining water) sand, strand, backshore

Translations

• French: plage
• German: Strand
• Italian: spiaggia
• Portuguese: praia
• Russian: пляж
• Spanish: playa

Verb

beach (beaches, present participle beaching; past and past participle beached)

1. (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, "Salt Water,"

     When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.

2. (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 90,

     It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.

   • 1974, Homer, Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53,

     Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis

     and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.

3. (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.

Synonyms

• strand

Translations

• German: stranden
• Italian: spiaggiare
• Portuguese: abicar, encalhar (accidentally)
• Spanish: encallar, varar, embarrancar

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Beach

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Proper noun

1. Surname
2. A hamlet/and/village in Gloucestershire, England.
3. A small city/county seat in Golden Valley County, North Dakota.

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