west coast

1. 1.

   the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofWest

Questions about west coast

What does west coast mean?

west coast means "the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California".

Is west coast a common word?

west coast 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.