coastal
- 1Located on or near the coast, or having to do with the coast and the strip of land beside the sea.
Coastal communities have adapted their architecture to withstand salt air and frequent storms.
The region's coastal wetlands provide habitat for thousands of migratory birds.
Similarseaside, maritime, littoral
Note
A geographer's adjective, built plainly from coast plus -al, that usually stands before its noun: a coastal town, a coastal breeze, coastal caves. Longshore is a near-synonym. In coastal elites it stretches into politics, sorting people by where they live rather than describing the land itself. It also takes degrees, so one place can be more coastal than another, or the most coastal of all.
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Origin
Formed from 'coast' combined with the suffix '-al'.