set ashore

1. 1.

   arrive on shore

   “The ship landed in Pearl Harbor”

   Synonymslandshore

   Broaderarrive

Questions about set ashore

What does set ashore mean?

set ashore means "arrive on shore".

What is another word for set ashore?

Close synonyms include land, shore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is set ashore a common word?

set ashore is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.