seaside resort

Definitions

A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).

Equivalents

Examples

“Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call⟳ for transatlantic liners.”

“This is a far cry⟳ from the days when summer Saturdays on the North Wales coast were by far the busiest days of the year, with successive full length loco-hauled trains, but life has changed: families no longer travel⟳ by rail to spend⟳ a fortnight's holiday at British seaside resorts!”

“The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support⟳ for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.”

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