name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
beach
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbiːt͡ʃ/
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[ˈbɪi̯t͡ʃ]
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rhymes with -iːtʃ
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homophone: beech
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CMU ARPABET: B IY1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
A surname from English
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
A surname from English
A surname from landforms
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
A surname from German
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A placename
A hamlet in Bitton parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref ST7070).
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name
Meaning 6
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ware County, Georgia.
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name
Meaning 7
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Webster County, Missouri.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Golden Valley County, North Dakota.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 9
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community on Lummi Island, Whatcom County, Washington.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
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noun
Meaning 11
A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
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noun
Meaning 12
The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Kent, UK, dialectal
Qualifier: Sussex
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noun
Meaning 13
Synonym of gravel trap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, motor-racing, racing, sports
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Synonyms: gravel trap
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noun
Meaning 14
A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
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Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 15
Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, form-of
Examples
- That beach should be punished!
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verb
Meaning 16
To run aground on a beach.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 17
To run (something) aground on a beach.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 18
To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
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noun
Meaning 19
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: geological formation, formation
Narrower terms: plage
verb
Meaning 20
land on a beach
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the ship beached near the port
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Broader terms: land, set down
History
Etymology
English surname reflecting multiple origins, including the nouns beach and beech, and Americanized from the German surname Bisch.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *baki, from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“brook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheg- (“flowing water”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian pach (“brook, creek, stream”), Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), German Low German Beek (“brook, stream”), Luxembourgish Baach (“brook, stream”), Mòcheno pòch (“brook, creek, stream”), Vilamovian bāh, baoch (“brook, stream”), Danish bæk (“brook”), Icelandic bekkur (“creek, spring, stream”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk bekk (“brook, creek, stream”), Swedish bäck (“brook, creek, stream”); also Lithuanian banga (“billow, wave”). More at batch, beck.
Across languages
Translations
291 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: аплиаж (apʼljaẑ) — sandy shore
- Afrikaans: strand — sandy shore
- Ainu: エピッ (epis) — sandy shore
- Ainu: シラㇻ (sirar) — sandy shore
- Albanian: plazh — sandy shore
- Northern Altai: чар (čar) — sandy shore
- Southern Altai: пляж (plyaž) — sandy shore
- Southern Altai: кумакту јабыс јарат (kumaktu ǰabïs ǰarat) — sandy shore
- Southern Altai: јар (ǰar) — sandy shore
- Antillean Creole: plaj — sandy shore
- Arabic: شَاطِئ (šāṭiʔ) — sandy shore
- Arabic: سَاحِل (sāḥil) — sandy shore
- Arabic: شط (šaṭṭ) — sandy shore
- Arabic: شاطئ (šāṭiʔ) — sandy shore
- Arabic: بحر (baḥar) — sandy shore
- Arabic: شاطئ (šāṭiʔ) — sandy shore
- Arabic: بحر (baḥar) — sandy shore
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܵܪܵܐ (spārā) — sandy shore
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܦܵܪ ܝܵܡܵܐ (spār yāmā) — sandy shore
- Aramaic: ספרא (spārā’) — sandy shore
- Aramaic: ܣܦܪܐ (spārā’) — sandy shore
- Armenian: լողափ (loġapʻ) — sandy shore
- Asturian: playa — sandy shore
- Asturian: sablera — sandy shore
- Avar: пляж (pljaž) — sandy shore
- Azerbaijani: çimərlik — sandy shore
- Azerbaijani: sahil — sandy shore
- Balinese: pasih — sandy shore
- Balinese: pasisi — sandy shore
- Bashkir: һыу буйы (hıw buyı) — sandy shore
- Bashkir: яр (yar) — sandy shore
- Basque: hondartza — sandy shore
- Basque: plaia — sandy shore
- Belarusian: пляж (pljaž) — sandy shore
- Bengali: সমুদ্রতট (śomudrotoṭ) — sandy shore
- Breton: traezhenn — sandy shore
- Bulgarian: плаж (plaž) — sandy shore
- Burmese: ကမ်းခြေ (kam:hkre) — sandy shore
- Catalan: platja — sandy shore
- Chamicuro: mas̈hkojpe — sandy shore
- Chechen: гӏум (ğum) — sandy shore
- Cherokee: ᎠᎹᏳᎳᏗ (amayuladi) — sandy shore
- Chinese Cantonese: 沙灘 /沙滩 (saa1 taan1) — sandy shore
- Chinese Cantonese: 灘 /滩 (taan1) — sandy shore
- Chinese: 海墘 (hái-kîn) — sandy shore
- Chinese: 海邊 /海边 (zh-min-nan) — sandy shore
- Chinese Mandarin: 海灘 /海滩 (hǎitān) — sandy shore
- Chinese Mandarin: 沙灘 /沙滩 (shātān) — sandy shore
- Chinese Mandarin: 灘 /滩 — sandy shore
- West Circassian: тафэ (tafɛ) — sandy shore
- Cornish: treth — sandy shore
- Czech: pláž — sandy shore
- Dalmatian: plui — sandy shore
- Danish: strand — sandy shore
- Dutch: strand — sandy shore
- Erzya: човарчире (čovarčire) — sandy shore
- Esperanto: plaĝo — sandy shore
- Esperanto: strando — sandy shore
- Estonian: rand — sandy shore
- Faroese: strond — sandy shore
- Finnish: hiekkaranta — sandy shore
- Finnish: ranta — sandy shore
- French: plage — sandy shore
- North Frisian: strun — sandy shore
- North Frisian: ströön — sandy shore
- North Frisian: Strun — sandy shore
- North Frisian: strönj — sandy shore
- West-Frisian: strân — sandy shore
- Friulian: ràsule — sandy shore
- Galician: praia — sandy shore
- Galician: areal — sandy shore
- Galician: grau — sandy shore
- Galician: arnela — sandy shore
- Galician: obre — sandy shore
- Georgian: ზღვის ნაპირი (zɣvis naṗiri) — sandy shore
- Georgian: პლაჟი (ṗlaži) — sandy shore
- German: Strand — sandy shore
- Central Franconian: Baach — sandy shore
- German: Boch — sandy shore
- Greek: αμμουδιά (ammoudiá) — sandy shore
- Greek: παραλία (paralía) — sandy shore
- Greek: ακρογιαλιά (akrogialiá) — sandy shore
- Ancient Greek: αἰγιαλός (aigialós) — sandy shore
- Ancient Greek: θίς (thís) — sandy shore
- Ancient Greek: ῥηγμίν (rhēgmín) — sandy shore
- Guianese Creole: laplaj — sandy shore
- Guianese Creole: plaj — sandy shore
- Gujarati: સમુદ્રતટ (samudrataṭ) — sandy shore
- Haitian Creole: plaj — sandy shore
- Halkomelem: cháchu — sandy shore
- Hawaiian: kahakai — sandy shore
- Hawaiian: kahaone — sandy shore
- Hawaiian: papa kea — sandy shore
- Hebrew: חוֹף (khof) — sandy shore
- Hindi: समुद्रतट (samudrataṭ) — sandy shore
- Hindi: सागरतट (sāgartaṭ) — sandy shore
- Hindi: तट (taṭ) — sandy shore
- Hindi: किनारा (kinārā) — sandy shore
- Hindi: किनार (kinār) — sandy shore
- Hindi: साहिल (sāhil) — sandy shore
- Hindi: तीर (tīr) — sandy shore
- Hiri Motu: kone — sandy shore
- Hungarian: tengerpart — sandy shore
- Hungarian: strand — sandy shore
- Hungarian: folyópart — sandy shore
- Hungarian: part — sandy shore
- Hungarian: tópart — sandy shore
- Icelandic: strönd — sandy shore
- Ido: plajo — sandy shore
- Igbo: ubòm — sandy shore
- Indonesian: pantai — sandy shore
- Interlingua: plagia — sandy shore
- Irish: trá — sandy shore
- Italian: spiaggia — sandy shore
- Japanese: 浜 (hama) — sandy shore
- Japanese: ビーチ (bīchi) — sandy shore
- Japanese: 海岸 (kaigan) — sandy shore
- Javanese: panté — sandy shore
- Kannada: ಕಡಲತೀರ (kaḍalatīra) — sandy shore
- Kazakh: жағажай (jağajai) — sandy shore
- Khmer: ឆ្នេរសមុទ្រ (chnee saʼmot) — sandy shore
- Korean: 바닷가 (badatga) — sandy shore
- Korean: 해변 (haebyeon) — sandy shore
- Kyrgyz: пляж (plyaj) — sandy shore
- Kyrgyz: кумжээк (kumjeek) — sandy shore
- Ladino: plaj — sandy shore
- Lao: ຫາດຊາຍ (hāt sāi) — sandy shore
- Lao: ຫາດ (hāt) — sandy shore
- Latin: lītus — sandy shore
- Latin: acta — sandy shore
- Latvian: pludmale — sandy shore
- Lithuanian: paplūdimys — sandy shore
- Lü: ᦠᦱᧆ (ḣaad) — sandy shore
- Luxembourgish: Plage — sandy shore
- Macedonian: пла́жа (pláža) — sandy shore
- Malagasy: morona — sandy shore
- Malay: pantai — sandy shore
- Brunei Malay: pantai — sandy shore
- Malayalam: സമുദ്രതീരം (samudratīraṁ) — sandy shore
- Malayalam: കടൽക്കര (kaṭalkkara) — sandy shore
- Malayalam: കടൽപ്പുറം (kaṭalppuṟaṁ) — sandy shore
- Maltese: xatt il-baħar — sandy shore
- Māori: tātahi — sandy shore
- Marathi: वाळवंट (vāḷvaṇṭa) — sandy shore
- Marathi: पुळण (puḷaṇ) — sandy shore
- Mauritian Creole: laplaz — sandy shore
- Central Melanau: teang — sandy shore
- Middle English: stronde — sandy shore
- Mongolian: далайн эрэг (dalajn ereg) — sandy shore
- Motu: kone — sandy shore
- Mwani: mwani — sandy shore
- Nahuatl: xaltentli — sandy shore
- Navajo: tábąąh — sandy shore
- Nepali: समुद्रतट (samudrataṭ) — sandy shore
- Nepali: तिर् (tir) — sandy shore
- Nepali: बगर् (bagar) — sandy shore
- Nepali: रेति (reti) — sandy shore
- Nheengatu: praya — sandy shore
- Norman: grève — sandy shore
- Norwegian Bokmål: strand — sandy shore
- Norwegian Nynorsk: strand — sandy shore
- Occitan: plaja — sandy shore
- Odia: ସମୁଦ୍ର କୂଳ (samudra kuḷa) — sandy shore
- Odia: ବେଳା ଭୂମି (beḷā bhumi) — sandy shore
- Old English: strand — sandy shore
- Old Norse: strǫnd — sandy shore
- Ossetian: денджыз (denǵyz) — sandy shore
- Pannonian Rusyn: плажа (plaža) — sandy shore
- Iranian Persian: ساحِل (sâhel) — sandy shore
- Iranian Persian: پِلاژ (pelâž) — sandy shore
- Plautdietsch: Eewa — sandy shore
- Polish: plaża — sandy shore
- Portuguese: praia — sandy shore
- Punjabi: ਸਮੁਂਦਰ-ਤੱਟ (samundra-taṭṭa) — sandy shore
- Punjabi: ਬੀਚ (bīc) — sandy shore
- Réunion Creole French: plaz — sandy shore
- Romagnol: maréna — sandy shore
- Romanian: plajă — sandy shore
- Romansh: splagia — sandy shore
- Romansh: riva — sandy shore
- Russian: пляж (pljaž) — sandy shore
- Russian: взмо́рье (vzmórʹje) — sandy shore
- Samoan: faga — sandy shore
- Samoan: matāfaga — sandy shore
- Sanskrit: तीर (tīra) — sandy shore
- Sanskrit: सागरतीरं (sāgaratīraṃ) — sandy shore
- Sardinian: plaja — sandy shore
- Sardinian: praja — sandy shore
- Scots: strand — sandy shore
- Scottish Gaelic: tràigh — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: пла́жа — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: жа̑л — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: жа́ло — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: pláža — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: žȃl — sandy shore
- Serbo-Croatian: žálo — sandy shore
- Slovak: pláž — sandy shore
- Slovene: plaža — sandy shore
- Spanish: playa — sandy shore
- Spanish: playero — sandy shore
- Sranan Tongo: syoro — sandy shore
- Sranan Tongo: sekanti — sandy shore
- Sudovian: sala — sandy shore
- Sudovian: krantas — sandy shore
- Swahili: pwani — sandy shore
- Swedish: sandstrand — sandy shore
- Swedish: strand — sandy shore
- Tagalog: dalampasigan — sandy shore
- Tahitian: pae miti — sandy shore
- Tahitian: tahatai — sandy shore
- Tajik: пляж (plyaž) — sandy shore
- Tajik: соҳил (sohil) — sandy shore
- Tamil: கடற்கரை (kaṭaṟkarai) — sandy shore
- Telugu: బీచ్ (bīc) — sandy shore
- Thai: หาด (hàat) — sandy shore
- Thai: ชายหาด (chaai-hàat) — sandy shore
- Tibetan: མཚོ་འགྲམ — sandy shore
- Tok Pisin: nambis — sandy shore
- Tokelauan: matāfaga — sandy shore
- Tongan: matatahi — sandy shore
- Turkish: kumsal — sandy shore
- Turkish: kumluk — sandy shore
- Turkish: kumbaşı — sandy shore
- Turkish: kumla — sandy shore
- Turkish: plaj — sandy shore
- Turkmen: plýaž — sandy shore
- Tuvan: сугга эштир чер (sugga eştir çer) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: пляж (pljaž) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: пля́жа (pljáža) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: бе́рег (béreh) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: надмо́р'я (nadmórʺja) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: узмо́р'я (uzmórʺja) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: обмі́лина (obmílyna) — sandy shore
- Ukrainian: мілина́ (milyná) — sandy shore
- Unami: shawihikàn — sandy shore
- Urdu: ساحِلِ سَمُنْدَر (sāhil-i samundar) — sandy shore
- Urdu: ساحِل (sāhil) — sandy shore
- Uyghur: ساھىل (sahil) — sandy shore
- Uzbek: plyaj — sandy shore
- Uzbek: sohil — sandy shore
- Vietnamese: bãi biển — sandy shore
- Volapük: jol — sandy shore
- Volapük: sabajol — sandy shore
- Walloon: pladje — sandy shore
- Welsh: traeth — sandy shore
- Yiddish: פּלאַזשע (plazhe) — sandy shore
- Yiddish: ברעג (breg) — sandy shore
- Yup'ik: ceń'aq — sandy shore
- Zulu: ibhishi — sandy shore
- Czech: najet na břeh — to run aground on a beach
- Danish: strande — to run aground on a beach
- Finnish: rantautua — to run aground on a beach
- Irish: triomaigh — to run aground on a beach
- Ottoman Turkish: اوتورمق (oturmak) — to run aground on a beach
- Bulgarian: засядам (zasjadam) — to run something aground on a beach
- Czech: vytáhnout na břeh — to run something aground on a beach
- Dutch: stranden — to run something aground on a beach
- Finnish: rantauttaa — to run something aground on a beach
- French: échouer — to run something aground on a beach
- Galician: encallar — to run something aground on a beach
- Galician: varar — to run something aground on a beach
- Galician: embarrancar — to run something aground on a beach
- German: stranden — to run something aground on a beach
- Hebrew: הֶעֱלָה לַחוֹף (he'ela lakhof) — to run something aground on a beach
- Hebrew: הֶעֱלָה עַל הָחוֹף (he'ela al hakhof) — to run something aground on a beach
- Hebrew: הֶחַף (hekhaf) — to run something aground on a beach
- Ido: strandigar — to run something aground on a beach
- Irish: triomaigh — to run something aground on a beach
- Italian: spiaggiare — to run something aground on a beach
- Japanese: 浜に引き上げる (hama ni hikiageru) — to run something aground on a beach
- Japanese: 浜に乗り上げる (hama ni noriageru) — to run something aground on a beach
- Māori: whakakukū — to run something aground on a beach
- Māori: pae — to run something aground on a beach
- Old English: āsettan — to run something aground on a beach
- Old English: āsittan — to run something aground on a beach
- Portuguese: abicar — to run something aground on a beach
- Portuguese: encalhar — to run something aground on a beach
- Serbo-Croatian: насукати — to run something aground on a beach
- Serbo-Croatian: nasukati — to run something aground on a beach
- Slovene: nasesti — to run something aground on a beach
- Spanish: encallar — to run something aground on a beach
- Spanish: varar — to run something aground on a beach
- Spanish: embarrancar — to run something aground on a beach
- Swedish: stranda — to run something aground on a beach
- Tongan: mataatahi — to run something aground on a beach
- Ukrainian: посади́ти на мілину́ (posadýty na milynú) — to run something aground on a beach
- Ukrainian: направля́ти на бе́рег (napravljáty na béreh) — to run something aground on a beach
- Ukrainian: витяга́ти на бе́рег (vytjaháty na béreh) — to run something aground on a beach
- Finnish: jumittua — of a vehicle: to run into an obstacle so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground
- Malay: pantai — of a vehicle: to run into an obstacle so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground
- Russian: садиться (saditʹsja) — of a vehicle: to run into an obstacle so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground
Real reading context