surf
noun/sɜːf/
/sɜːrf/
- [uncountable] large waves in the sea or ocean, and the white foam that they produce as they fall on the beach, on rocks, etc.
- the sound of surf breaking on the beach
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc1- The children splashed around in the surf.
- dolphins riding the surf
- the roar of distant surf
- The sea lions lie near the breaking surf off the beaches.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- crashing
- pounding
- big
- …
- ride
- break
- crash
- in the surf
- the roar of (the) surf
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- [singular] an act of going surfing
- He decided to go for a surf near Fremantle.
- Sydney, surf capital of the world (= where the sport of surfing is very popular)
Word Originlate 17th cent.: apparently from obsolete suff, of unknown origin, perhaps influenced by the spelling of surge.
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