beach Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
  2. verb land on a beach
    • the ship beached near the port

WordNet

Beach noun
Etymology
Cf. Sw. backe hill, Dan. bakke, Icel. bakki hill, bank. Cf. Bank.
Wordforms
plural Beaches
Definitions
  1. Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
  2. The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
Beach transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Beached (); present participle & verbal noun Beaching
Definitions
  1. To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Webster 1913