Sandbank
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
- 2 a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide wordnet
Example
More examples"When she came back she had hundreds of things to tell them, but the most delightful of all, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank in a calm sea, and to gaze at the large town close to the shore, where the lights twinkled like hundreds of stars; to listen to music and the noise and bustle of carriages and people, to see the many church towers and spires, and to hear the bells ringing."
Etymology
From sand + bank. Compare Dutch zandbank (“sandbank, shoal”), German Sandbank (“sandbank, sandbar, shoal”), Swedish sandbank (“sandbank, bar”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.