Complete Definition of "beach"

Image:Stinson beach.JPG|thumb|right|Stinson Beach, in California.
English

Etymology
From Old English bæce, bece "stream," from Proto-Gemanic *bakiz

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-beach.ogg|Audio (US)

Homophones
beech

Noun
en-noun|es

  1. A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.

#: 1988: �Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.� - Second Son, Robert Ferro

Synonyms
i-c|horixontal strip of land adjoining water cove, sand, strand, surf

Antonyms
depths

Translations
trans-top|sandy shore
trreq|Albanian
Arabic: Arab|شاطئ IPAchar|(���i�) m
trreq|Aramaic
trreq|Armenian
trreq|Balinese
Basque: hondartza, plaia
trreq|Bengali
Bosnian: t-|bs|plaža|f
Breton: traezhenn f, -où p
Bulgarian: плаж (plaž)
trreq|Burmese
Catalan: platja f
Chinese: 海滩 (h�it�n)
Croatian: t-|hr|plaža|f
Czech: t-|cs|pláž|f
Danish: t-|da|strand|c
Dutch: t+|nl|strand|n
Esperanto: t-|eo|pla�o|xsEsperanto, t-|eo|strando|xsEsperanto
trreq|Estonian
Finnish: ranta, hiekkaranta, uimaranta
French: t+|fr|plage|f
trreq|Galician
Georgian: ����� ��­��­�� (z�vis napiri), ����� (plaži)
German: t+|de|Strand|m
Greek: αμμο�διά (ammudia) f, �α�αλία (paralia) f, ακ�ογ�αλιά (akroyalia) f
trreq|Gujarati
Hawaiian: kahakai, kahaone, papa kea
Hebrew: ��ף (khof) m
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: t+|hu|part, t+|hu|tengerpart, t+|hu|strand
trreq|Ido
Indonesian: pantai
Interlingua: plagia
Irish: trá f, -nna p
Italian: t+|it|spiaggia|f
Japanese: � (��, hama)
trreq|Javanese
trreq|Kannada
Khmer: KMchar|����������� (ch�n�i s�m�t)
Korean: ��� (badatga)
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trreq|Lao
Latin: litus n (genitive: litoris), acta f
trreq|Latvian
trreq|Lithuanian
Malay: pantai
trreq|Malayalam
trreq|Maltese
trreq|Maori
trreq|Mongolian
trreq|Nepali
Norwegian: t+|no|strand|c
Occitan: plaja f
trreq|Old English
trreq|Oriya
trreq|Persian
Polish: t+|pl|plaża|f
Portuguese: t+|pt|praia|f
trreq|Punjabi
Romanian: plaj� f
Russian: t-|ru|пл�ж|m|trpljaž|scCyrl
trreq|Samoan
trreq|Sanskrit
trreq|Scottish Gaelic
Serbian:

Slovak: t-|sk|pláž|f
trreq|Slovene
Spanish: t+|es|playa|f
Swahili: pwani (nc 9/10)
Swedish: sandstrand c, strand c
trreq|Tahitian
trreq|Tamil
trreq|Telugu
Thai: Thai|หา� (hàat), Thai|�ายหา� (chaai hàat)
trreq|Tongan
Turkish: kumsal, kıyı, plaj
trreq|Ukrainian
trreq|Urdu
trreq|Vietnamese
Welsh: traeth m, -au p
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ttbc|Serbian

Verb
en-verb|beach|es

  1. To run (something) aground on a beach.

Synonyms

strand

Translations

trans-top|run something aground on a beach
Dutch: stranden
German: stranden
trans-mid
Swedish: stranda
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Irish

Pronunciation
IPA|/bʲax/

Noun
beach f

  1. a bee.

Declension
ga noun f2|b|each|eiche

Category:Irish nouns

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