Library / English Dictionary

WEST COAST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("West Coast" is a part of...):

West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I remembered what Silver had said about the current that sets northward along the whole west coast of Treasure Island, and seeing from my position that I was already under its influence, I preferred to leave Haulbowline Head behind me and reserve my strength for an attempt to land upon the kindlier-looking Cape of the Woods.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)