What does Ashore mean?

Definitions for Ashore
əˈʃɔr, əˈʃoʊrashore

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Ashore.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. ashoreadverb

    towards the shore from the water

    "we invited them ashore"

Wiktionary

  1. ashoreadverb

    On the land as opposed to onboard

  2. ashoreadverb

    On, or towards the shore

  3. Etymology: a- + shore

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ashoreadverb

    Etymology: from a and shore.

    The poor Englishman riding in the road, having all that he brought thither ashore, would have been undone. Walter Raleigh.

    Moor’d in a Chian creek, ashore I went,
    And all the following night in Chios spent. Joseph Addison, Ovid.

    We may as bootless spend our vain command,
    As send our precepts to the leviathan
    To come ashore. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    May thy billows rowl ashore
    The beryl, and the golden ore. John Milton, Comus.

Wikipedia

  1. ashore

    This list of ship directions provides succinct definitions for terms applying to spatial orientation in a marine environment or location on a vessel, such as fore, aft, astern, aboard, or topside.

ChatGPT

  1. ashore

    Ashore refers to being on or towards the shore or land from a body of water such as the sea, a lake, or a river. It is often used in context of someone or something arriving on land after a journey in water.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ashoreadverb

    on shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat

  2. Etymology: [Pref. a- + shore.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ashore

    a-shōr′, adv. on shore. [Prep. a, and Shore.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ashore

    Aground, on land.--To go ashore, to disembark from a boat. Opposed to aboard.

Anagrams for Ashore »

  1. ahorse

  2. hoarse

  3. shorea

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Ashore in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Ashore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Ashore in a Sentence

  1. Jacqui McCullagh:

    Boats washed ashore, houses without roofs, windows smashed in, trees snapped in half, gum trees torn out of the ground and those that do remain standing, are bare and lifeless, the wind gusts were so ferocious, they sounded like freight trains passing by. The concrete walls were shaking non-stop all day.

  2. Blaine Gibson:

    Mozambique is really separate from this -- even though it's on the Indian Ocean. I didn't come here to look for the plane, it was my 177th country to visit. I'm here as a tourist, but since I'm passionately interested in MH370, and I am on the Indian Ocean I thought, 'Why not take a boat out and ask some of the local people where stuff washed ashore from the open ocean?'.

  3. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan:

    We cannot bear any longer to sit back and watch bodies of children and women washed ashore on the coasts of the Mediterranean and Aegean as a result of a forced helplessness, the solution of this crisis is through bringing down the tyrannic regime in Syria.

  4. Joseph Thomas:

    Once we got it ashore with the help of another vessel, (the coastguard) scraped some of the goose barnacles off, and it just so happened the first place they scraped, they found the flag.

  5. Serina Tsubakihara:

    Park Lee said. Park Lee posted a lengthy message on Facebook in Chinese and Japanese after seeing several photos were taken in Japan. He said clues indicated the camera was owned by young people and posted several of the photos to help identify the owner. Within a day his post received more than 10,000 shares and a response from the owner, Serina Tsubakihara. Park Lee said he believed the camera was owned by someone who was younger based on the photos. ( Park Lee & Serina Tsubakihara) I couldn't believe Park Lee, Serina Tsubakihara told the BBC. I was super surprised when my friends told me about this and sent me the post with those pictures. Serina Tsubakihara said Serina Tsubakihara lost the camera in 2015 while Serina Tsubakihara was on vacation on the island of Ishigaki, Okinawa, about 155 miles east of Taiwan. The camera then drifted hundreds of miles, eventually washing ashore the beach in Taiwan. Park Lee posted several pictures to help identify the owner. ( Park Lee & Serina Tsubakihara) I was scuba diving and I lost the camera when one of my friends ran out of air and needed my help.

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