The term "seaboard" refers to a coastal region or shore, specifically along an ocean or sea. It can also refer to a seaport city located on the coast. The word comes from Old Norse and means "coast."
Usage examples
The storm caused severe damage along the entire seaboard, from Florida to Maine.
The new highway will run parallel to the seaboard, providing easier access to coastal towns.
The shipping company operates multiple ports along the Pacific seaboard, facilitating trade with Asia.
Many tourists flock to the east seaboard during the summer months to enjoy the beautiful beaches and warm weather.
The fishing industry is a vital part of the economy in many seaboard communities, providing jobs and sustenance.
That is enough to devastate the entire eastern seaboard of the United States — and then some. (businessinsider.com)
Nor is that to say anything of the Francophone or German republican traditions through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, in which theorists as different as Fichte and Tocqueville can be located, or of the forms (anti--RRB- colonial republicanism took outside the eastern seaboard of North America. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
The main foothold outside Europe established by Protestants before the mid-eighteenth century was along the Atlantic seaboard of North America in the Thirteen Colonies which in the 1780's became the United States of America. (religion-online.org)