Meaning of Oceanside | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A city in San Diego County, California, United States.
2. The area by and around the ocean.
3. A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.
4. A census-designated place in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.
5. A group of communities on the east coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
6. A suburb of the town of South West Rocks, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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“Near-synonym: seaside (usually synonymous)”

“Oh for a hotel on the oceanside and lobster or crab at every dinner!”

“[…] so far removed from the scenery of her native New England, she felt as though she had entered another world. The waters of Lake Worth, separating Palm Beach from the mainland, sparkled blue and white under the afternoon sun. The oceanside was lined with resort hotels.”

“Here are mountains running to the sea—the variety of all types of resorts—not merely "seashore alone." There is a section of your country where the mountains join the sea—a beauty spot incomparable—where you may see the rose tint of a famous sunset on these mountains as you lie on the beach. Cool, delightful Southern California—summer wonderful supreme! Temperatures?—let the U. S. Weather Bureau vouch for them in its 49-year record of the average mean temperatures at a central point: 49 Junes, 66 degrees: 49 Julys, 30: 49 Augusts, 71: 49 Septembers, 69 (official figures, not our own). Such bathing, such water you have seldom known at oceansides. And yet the days are rainless, genially warm, just right for every summer sport from golf to mountain climbing.”

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