Words & TermsPlaces and regional language
sea change
Also: seachange, sea-changer
A lifestyle change involving a move from a city to a seaside place.
In a sentence
Their sea change took them from an inner-city flat to a coastal town.
Where it came from
The lifestyle sense was popularised by the Australian television series SeaChange, first broadcast in 1998. It adapts Shakespeare’s older sea-change, meaning a profound transformation.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established
- Use today
- Current