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# boardwalk

«boardwalk» in Mova's school dictionary: **A path made of wooden boards, often built over sand, mud…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a boardwalk, boardwalks)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A path made of wooden boards, often built over sand, mud or wet ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#m1)

2) (US) A wooden walkway along a beach with shops, food stands and rides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and nature it describes paths through wetlands, beaches and forests that protect plants and keep feet dry. In American everyday life, a boardwalk is a seaside promenade, like Atlantic City. Phrases: "along the boardwalk", "on the boardwalk".

### examples

- We walked along the boardwalk through the swamp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x1)
- The boardwalk stops people trampling the sand dunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x2)
- We ate ice cream on the boardwalk by the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x3)
- The wooden boardwalk was slippery after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x4)
- A turtle crossed under the boardwalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x5)
- Stay on the boardwalk to protect the plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boardwalk/#x6)

### note

Countable: a boardwalk, boardwalks. Made of "board" plus "walk". In the UK, a seaside walkway is more often called a "promenade" or "prom".

### Trees and pragmatics

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