shore

1. 1.

   the land along the edge of a body of water

   Broadergeological formation

   Narrowerlakesideseashorestrand

   Partsbeachshoreline

   lake · ocean · river

2. 2.

   a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

   Synonymsshoring

   Broaderbeam

Other forms of shore

plural

shores·

past tense

shored·

present participle

shoring·

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.

Questions about shore

What does shore mean?

shore means "serve as a shore to". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shore?

shore has 1 syllable: shore. In IPA it is /ˈʃɔɹ/.

What is another word for shore?

Close synonyms include land, set ashore, prop up, prop, shore up. 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 shore a common word?

shore is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shore?

6 words rhyme with shore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.