Waterfront - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈwɔːtərfrʌnt|  American pronunciation of the word waterfront
Brit.  |ˈwɔːtəfrʌnt|  British pronunciation of the word waterfront

noun

- the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water

Extra examples

The hotel is down on the waterfront.

...an ambitious project to develop the city's waterfront...

...the city's waterfront has been blazoned with banners celebrating the festival of tall ships...

...before gentrification the city's waterfront was known for sleazy dives that were frequented by hell-raising sailors and drunken doxies...

...the city's run-down waterfront was occupied mostly by disreputable places frequented by drunkards and rapscallions...

...sought work as a roustabout on the city's seedy waterfront...

...a seedy section of the city's waterfront that was rife with cheap taverns, tattoo parlors, and run-down flophouses...

Word forms

noun
singular: waterfront
plural: waterfronts
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