waterfront

English

Etymology

water +‎ front

Noun

waterfront (plural waterfronts)

1. The land alongside a body of water.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

2. The dockland district of a town.

Translations

land alongside a body of water

• Bulgarian: брегова линия f (bregova linija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沿岸 (zh) (yan'an)

• Finnish: vesiraja (fi), ranta (fi)
• Georgian: პორტი (ṗorṭi)
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• Hungarian: vízpart (hu)
• Italian: fronte mare m
• Polish: wybrzeże (pl) n
• Portuguese: beira-mar (pt), beira-rio
• Spanish: línea de costa f, vezparte

dockland district of a town

• Bulgarian: пристанищен район m (pristaništen rajon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 船坞区

• Finnish: ranta (fi)
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• German: Hafenviertel (de) n
• Polish: nabrzeże (pl) n
• Portuguese: região portuária

Derived terms

• cover the waterfront