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# ashore

«ashore» in Mova's school dictionary: **On or onto the land from the sea or a river** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (ashore)

### meaning for a pupil

On or onto the land from the sea or a river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and geography, sailors go ashore, ships run ashore, and things wash ashore after a storm. In safety lessons, swimmers should come ashore if the flag shows danger. Phrases: go ashore, come ashore, wash ashore, run ashore.

### examples

- The sailors went ashore to buy food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x1)
- A whale washed ashore on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x2)
- We swam ashore when the wind picked up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x3)
- The pirates rowed ashore at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x4)
- Rubbish washed ashore after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x5)
- The ship ran ashore on the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x6)
- Ib jumped ashore, and ran a little distance from the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/#x7)

### note

It is an adverb: «go ashore», not «go to ashore». Opposite: aboard (onto a ship) or at sea. Related: shore.

### In the corpora

- [Been thrown into a canal—swam ashore!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/65-willows-ch11-part1-why-steal-them/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ashore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ashore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.