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say it: kohst
coast is a noun and verb meaning "the shore of a sea or ocean". It is pronounced /ˈkoʊst/ — kohst. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the shore of a sea or ocean
the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
“his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill”
“the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coast come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.