waterfront en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English front English waterfront From water + front.
Meanings
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The land alongside a body of water.
As I waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it.
2025 May 19, Kate Knibbs, “Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7: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.
1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The land alongside a body of water. ▸ The dockland district of a town.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| waterfronts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
geofront · waterfrontage · cover the waterfront
Hypernyms
location · location · front · place · front · place
Translations (22)
bg пристанищен район (dockland district of a town) · pl nabrzeże (dockland district of a town) · de Hafenviertel (dockland district of a town) · bg брегова линия (land alongside a body of water) · ka პორტი (land alongside a body of water) · pl wybrzeże (land alongside a body of water) · fi vesiraja (land alongside a body of water) · es costanera (land alongside a body of water) · es línea de costa (land alongside a body of water) · cmn 船塢區 /船坞区 (dockland district of a town) · es rambla (land alongside a body of water) · es ribera (land alongside a body of water) · fi ranta (land alongside a body of water) · pt região portuária (dockland district of a town) · fi ranta (dockland district of a town) · es malecón (land alongside a body of water) · cmn 沿岸 (land alongside a body of water) · pt beira-mar (land alongside a body of water) · it fronte mare (land alongside a body of water) · hu vízpart (land alongside a body of water) · pt beira-rio (land alongside a body of water) · es litoral (land alongside a body of water)