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# seaside

«seaside» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place by the sea, especially a beach or town where…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the seaside); adjective (seaside)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The seaside is a place by the sea, especially a beach or town where people go on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#m1)

2) (adjective) By the sea: a seaside town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and history lessons: seaside holidays, sandcastles, piers, ice cream, rock pools. Safety at the seaside: swim between the flags, watch the tide, wear sun cream, stay near adults. Phrase: "go to the seaside", "at the seaside".

### examples

- We went to the seaside for the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x1)
- Brighton is a seaside town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x2)
- At the seaside we built sandcastles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x3)
- Seaside holidays in the past were very different. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x4)
- Swim between the red and yellow flags at the seaside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x5)
- Grandma lives in a little seaside village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x6)
- The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seaside/#x7)

### note

Mostly British, Irish, Australian; Americans often say "the beach" or "the shore". Used with "the": go to the seaside.

### In the corpora

- [Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/5/)
- [A recount retells real events in time order: «On Tuesday, Class 4 went to the seaside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/23-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report/1/)
- [At the seaside a gull snatches a chip out of Chloe's hand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/458-magpies-geese-ponies-and-swans-animals-that-are-not-your-friends/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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