seaside

«seaside» in Mova's school dictionary: a place by the sea, especially a beach or town where… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the seaside); adjective (seaside)

meaning for a pupil

1) The seaside is a place by the sea, especially a beach or town where people go on holiday. tree →

2) (adjective) By the sea: a seaside town. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and history lessons: seaside holidays, sandcastles, piers, ice cream, rock pools. Safety at the seaside: swim between the flags, watch the tide, wear sun cream, stay near adults. Phrase: "go to the seaside", "at the seaside".

examples

• We went to the seaside for the day. tree →
• Brighton is a seaside town. tree →
• At the seaside we built sandcastles. tree →
• Seaside holidays in the past were very different. tree →
• Swim between the red and yellow flags at the seaside. tree →
• Grandma lives in a little seaside village. tree →
• The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. tree →

note

Mostly British, Irish, Australian; Americans often say "the beach" or "the shore". Used with "the": go to the seaside.

In the corpora

• Gulls are bold and clever, and they learn that people carry food, so some snatch chips and sandwiches at the seaside.
• A recount retells real events in time order: «On Tuesday, Class 4 went to the seaside.
• At the seaside a gull snatches a chip out of Chloe's hand.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «seaside» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.