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beach
What does beach mean?
beach (noun): an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce beach?
/bitʃ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does beach come from?
From Middle English bache, bæcche (“bank, sandbank”), from Old English beċe (“beck, brook, stream”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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