Word Study
inshore
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective inshore has 2 senses
- inshore(a = adj.all) onshore, seaward, shoreward - (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land; "an inshore breeze"; "an onshore gale"; "sheltered from seaward winds" Antonym: offshore
- inshore(s = adj.all) Array - close to a shore; "inshore fisheries"
Adverbial inshore has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
inshore, a.
Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inshore, adv. & adj. at sea but close to the shore.
Idiom
inshore of nearer to shore than.
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