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The area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water
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waterfront
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Wikipedia
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Waterfront may refer to: waterfront (area) , the dockland district of a town
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adam Clark also designed the tunnel which runs under Buda hill connecting the western parts of Buda with the waterfront . ▪ Impressive churches and small greens dot the city, and there are plans to renovate many of the dilapidated ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 The land alongside a body of water. 2 The dockland district of a town. n. 1 The land alongside a body of water. 2 The dockland district of a town.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also water-front , 1834, American English, from water (n.1) + front (n.). To cover the waterfront "deal with thoroughly" is attested from 1913; I Cover the Waterfront was a 1932 best-seller by San Diego newspaperman Max Miller.
Usage examples of waterfront.
On the waterfront in the town of New Arkhangelsk, on the western side of the big island that the Russians called Baranof and the natives called Sitka, two men stood looking out over the harbor.
Carpenter, with his identification plaque strapped to the palm of his open upraised hand for easy display to every laser scanner he met along the way, went from level to level, up one and down the next, following the portentous instructions of invisible metallic voices, until at last he came to the waterfront itself, ashimmer in a bright green haze of midday heat.
A chief was addressing them in fatherly tones, warning them that the district known as Klong Toey, famous as a rough waterfront strip in Bangkok, was strictly off-limits to all Navy personnel.
Junk Buoy was modeled on a thousand waterfront resort bars that Lawrence had enjoyed in his twenties, and those had all been centuries out of date long before he even reached Earth.
Yokohama than Mushy Hansen beat it down the waterfront to see if he couldst match me at some good fight club.
It began in 1977 and has been publishing the dreams of Sausahto houseboat community residents and non-residents who dream of the Sausalito waterfront.
Tour boats filled with passengers nosed their way along the waterfront, poking into the channels that ran back to the ends of the docking slips of Harbour Island and into the Duwamish Rover.
He was unaware that the car behind followed him along the waterfront and under the West Seattle Bridge, dropping back only when he pulled into his favorite parking spot along the Duwamish West Waterway off Klikitat.
In advance of the main mass of flames, an incandescent cloud of fiery particles envelops the waterfront in droplets of blazing gasoline.
Most streets near the waterfront had brick footwalks and gutters and were lit at night by whale oil lamps, except when the moon was full.
Jeronimo and van Hoek went off towards a smoky and riotous quarter near the waterfront while Jack and Moseh went to reconnoiter in a finer neighborhood up the hill.
After dinner most evenings we walked together with him back down to the waterfront, where we would stroll along the Intracoastal as the yachts from Palm Beach idled by in the glow of the sunset.
The streets of Blackbury Jambs are a series of traverses leading down to the waterfront main street that connects the two bridges.
I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean modern towers and pinnacles that rise blackly Babylonian under waning moons, I had found instead only a sense of horror and oppression which threatened to master, paralyze, and annihilate me.
CHAPTER VIII A LETTER TO THE SHADOW APARTMENT 5C at the Greendale Arms was much more comfortable than the tiny waterfront hide-out where Perique had taken Doug Lawton.