shore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shô
ipa: /ʃɔː(ɹ)/
enpr: shôr
ipa: /ʃɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: shōrʹ
ipa: /ʃo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʃoə/
homophone: sure (UK, pour–poor merger)
homophone: Shaw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: shores
Etymology: From Middle English schore, from Old English *sċora (attested as sċor- in placenames), from Proto-Germanic *skurô (“rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”). Possibly related to Old English sċieran (“to cut”), which survives today as English shear.
Cognate with Middle Dutch scorre (“land washed by the sea”), Middle Low German schor (“shore, coast, headland”), Middle High German schorre ("rocky crag, high rocky shore"; > German Schorre, Schorren (“towering rock, crag”)), and Limburgish sjaor (“riverbank”). Maybe connected with Norwegian Bokmål skjær.
Senses: examples: text: lake shore; bay shore; gulf shore; island shore; mainland shore; river shore; estuary shore; pond shore; sandy shore; rocky shore
text: the fruitful shore of muddy Nile
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Floods in the middle Yangtse were frequent in the past. The Yangtse carries less silt than the Yellow River. But under the old regimes, the Chingkiang section (the section of the middle Yangtse between Chihchiang County in Hupeh Province and Chenglingchi in Hunan Province), the shores of the Tungting Lake and the lower reaches of the Han Shui were frequently flooded, causing great damage to the vast plain of Hupeh and Hunan.
ref: 1958, Wang Chun-heng, “The Middle Yangtse Region”, in A Simple Geography of China (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 117:
glosses: Land adjoining a non-flowing body of water, such as an ocean, lake or pond.
examples: text: The seamen were serving on shore instead of on ships.
text: The passengers signed up for shore tours.
glosses: Land, usually near a port.
raw_tags: from the perspective of one on a body of water
Hyponyms: sense: land adjoining a large body of water
word: beach
sense: land adjoining a large body of water
word: headland
sense: land adjoining a large body of water
word: coast
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: alongshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: ashore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: backshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: bayshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: downshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: foreshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: highshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: Huron Shores
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: inshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: Jersey Shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: lakeshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: lake shore disease
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: lee shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: longshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: midshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: nearshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: North Shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: Norton Shores
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: offshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: onshore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: right-shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: seashore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shorebird
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore break
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore bug
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore cod
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore crab
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shored
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore dinner
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore dotterel
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore duty
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreface
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore fly
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shorefront
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreland
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore lark
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore leave
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreless
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreline
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore patrol
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore pine
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore pit viper
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore plover
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore plum
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore power
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreside
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore snipe
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore teetan
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shore thistle
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreward
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shorewards
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: shoreweed
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: South Shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: Temiskaming Shores
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: weather shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: why is the ocean near the shore
sense: Terms derived from shore (noun)
word: windward shore
Related terms: longshoreman
shorage