How to pronounce seaboard
American English pronunciation
SEE-bord
- IPA
- /ˈsiˌbɔɹd/
- Syllables
- SEE · bord (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What seaboard means
The land that runs along the edge of the sea
In a sentence: Big storms often sweep up the Atlantic seaboard in the fall.
Where it comes from: It comes from the older sea-bord. It perhaps continues an old word for the side of a ship that faces the sea.
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