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WATERFRONT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waterfront mean?
• WATERFRONT (noun)
The noun WATERFRONT has 1 sense:
1. the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water
Familiarity information: WATERFRONT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("waterfront" is a kind of...):
city district (a district of a town or city)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "waterfront"):
seafront (the waterfront of a seaside town)
dockyard (an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired)
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