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coastal

adj
/ˈkəʊstəl/UK/ˈkoʊstəl/US

Etymology

From coast + -al. Piecewise doublet of costal.

  1. derived from costa — “rib; side, wall”
  2. derived from costicāre
  3. derived from costoier — “to be at the side of”
  4. inherited from costeien — “to travel along a border or coast; to go alongside (something), skirt; to accompany, follow; to travel across, traverse; to be adjacent to, to border;”
  5. formed as coastal — “coast + -al”

Definitions

  1. Relating to the coast

    Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

    • coastal town
    • coastal breeze
    • coastal elites

  2. Coastal Carolina University.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at coastal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at coastal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at coastal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA