beach
English
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Etymology
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”).
Cognate with Dutch beek (“brook, stream”), German Bach (“brook, stream”), Swedish bäck (“stream, brook, creek”). More at batch, beck.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /biːt͡ʃ/
Audio (UK): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /bit͡ʃ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtʃ
- Homophone: beech
Noun
beach (plural beaches)
- The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
- 1988, Robert Ferro, Second Son:
- Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.
- (UK dialectal, Sussex, Kent) The loose pebbles of the seashore, especially worn by waves; shingle.
- (motor racing, euphemistic) Synonym of gravel trap
- (sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
- 2008, Phil Shaw, The Book of Football Quotations, page 415:
- I never realised Lincoln was a seaside town. BRIAN LAWS Scunthorpe manager, after losing on a liberally sanded beach of a pitch
- 2012, Tim Quelch, Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets:
- The series was brought to an ironic conclusion when England became hoist by their own petard, as they lost the deciding final Test on a 'beach' of a wicket. Neither side batted well.
- Euphemistic form of bitch (taboo swear word).
- That beach should be punished!
Synonyms
Derived terms
- ape beach daisy
- Arizona's beach
- backbeach
- Beach
- beach apple
- beach bag
- beach ball
- beachball
- beach ball diagram
- beach ball plot
- beach bar
- beachberry
- beach body
- beach book
- beachbound
- beach box
- beachboy
- beach break
- beach buggy
- beach bum
- beach bunny
- beach cabbage
- beachcam
- beachcast
- beach chair
- beachcomber
- beachcombing
- beach cruiser
- beach day
- beach flea
- beachfront
- beachful
- beachgirl
- beach-girl
- beach girl
- beachgoer
- beach-goer
- beachgoing
- beachgrass
- beach hat
- beach-head
- beach head
- beachhead
- beachhouse
- beach hut
- beachie
- beachkeeper
- beachless
- beachlet
- beachlike
- beachline
- beachmaster
- beach mining
- beach nourishment
- beach party
- beach pea
- beach plum
- beach read
- beach ridge
- beach rubbing
- beachsalmon
- beach sandal
- beachscape
- beachside
- beach soccer
- beach stone-curlew
- beach strawberry
- beach sunflower
- beach thick-knee
- beach towel
- beach transect
- beach umbrella
- beach volleyball
- beach volleyball player
- beach wagon
- beachward
- beachwards
- beachwear
- beachwort
- beachy
- Boynton Beach
- bring sand to the beach
- Cape beach daisy
- Cocoa Beach
- Dania Beach
- Dania Beach
- day at the beach
- Daytona Beach
- Delray Beach
- Delray Beach
- forebeach
- Fort Myers Beach
- Gold Beach
- Hallandale Beach
- Mexico Beach
- Miami Beach
- Muscle Beach
- Myrtle Beach
- nonbeach
- Northern Beaches
- North Miami Beach
- nude beach
- nudist beach
- Ormond Beach
- palaeobeach
- paleobeach
- Palm Beach
- Panama City Beach
- Pilning and Severn Beach
- Pismo Beach
- pocket beach
- raised beach
- rebeach
- Revere Beach
- Riviera Beach
- Round Lake Beach
- sandbeach
- seabeach
- Seal Beach
- Severn Beach
- sex on the beach
- South Beach diet
- South Beach Diet
- steel beach party
- steel beach picnic
- storm beach
- St. Petersburg Beach
- unbeach
- Venice Beach
- Vero Beach
- Virginia Beach
Descendants
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Verb
beach (third-person singular simple present beaches, present participle beaching, simple past and past participle beached)
- (intransitive) To run aground on a beach.
- 1941, Emily Carr, “Salt Water”, in Klee Wyck:
- When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.
- (transitive) To run (something) aground on a beach.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 90”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.
- 1974, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Iliad, Doubleday, Book Two, lines 530-31, p. 53:
- Great Aías led twelve ships from Sálamis
and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.
- (of a vehicle) 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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French
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Noun
beach m (plural beachs)
- (Congo) port where goods and passengers embark and debark
- 2006 March 14, Tshiala David, “Baisse du trafic au beach Ngobila entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville”, in Le Potentiel:
- C’est ainsi qu’elles ont décidé d’embarquer leurs marchandises dans des pirogues motorisés qui desservent les beachs privés entre les deux rives du fleuve Congo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2007, Jean-Alexis M'Foutou, La langue française au Congo-Brazzaville:
- Le Beach de Brazzaville hier réputé lieu de violence, de viols et de braquages, présent aujourd’hui des conditions de sécurité plutôt rassurantes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos (compare Middle Welsh beg-egyr, byg-egyr (“drone”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoyk- (compare Latin fūcus and, perhaps, Proto-Slavic *bьčela), enlargement of *bʰey- (compare Welsh by-daf (“beehive”), English bee).
Pronunciation
Noun
beach f (genitive singular beiche, nominative plural beacha)
- bee (insect)
Declension
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
beach | bheach | mbeach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
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Bee on flower
Etymology
From Old Irish bech, from Proto-Celtic *beko-, *bikos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰik-, *bʰoik-, enlargement of *bʰī-, *bʰei-.
Pronunciation
Noun
beach m (genitive singular beacha, plural beachan)
Derived terms
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
beach | bheach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “beach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “beach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 31
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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