Meaning of Waterfront | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The land alongside a body of water.
2. The dockland district of a town.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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