WATERFRONT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of waterfront in English

(Definition of waterfront from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of waterfront from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of waterfront

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Reference to a 'liberation fund' highlights the (relatively) privileged position of the coffee workers on the city's waterfront.
Part three focuses on the fraught industrial relations of the waterfront and the struggles to create a trade union among this casual, but skilled, workforce.
The city has a busy waterfront, office towers, streets lined with shops and entertainment and a public transportation system that ties the city together.
We have pondered the problem only to come up with the suggestion of retaining the present, pleasant waterfront as is.
The project team has been concerned with situating a city on the waterfront, and we feel that what has been lost can be retrieved.
On the waterfront, a 25 m wide quay promenade, a road and a sidewalk and arches containing various shops would be built.
We have looked at examples from landfill, industrial, inner-city infrastructural, and waterfront projects.
By the mid-thirteenth century bath-houses providing hot baths in return for payment had appeared in the waterfront district and were commonly associated with vice.
This will form a very large triangular area with a long-side facing the waterfront.
The car park will be located behind the lifeboat station, between the waterfront and the cliffs.
To the west, there is a triangular area that we recommend be reserved for a convention hall on the waterfront.
Hundreds of people gathered at the waterfront, including a choir that had been invited to give a concert.
The 'systematic review' of the available evidence has emerged as the favoured instrument, and research syntheses are now commissioned and conducted right across the policy waterfront.
The subjects of local rulers who lived in fiefs that included parts of the coastline were allowed to fish in the waters adjacent to their waterfront.
The waterfront has been disregarded.
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Translations of waterfront

in Chinese (Traditional)
(城鎮的)濱水區,水邊地…
in Chinese (Simplified)
(城镇的)滨水区,水边地…
in Spanish
paseo marítimo, muelle, ribera…
in Portuguese
beira-mar, orla, região da praia (em uma cidade) [feminine]…
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sahil, su kenarı, kıyı…
front [masculine] de mer, bord [masculine] de l’eau, front de mer…
水辺(みずべ)の土地(とち)…
waterkant…
nábřeží…
søpromenade, havnefront…
tepi pantai…
ริมฝั่ง, เขตริมน้ำ, เขตริมฝั่ง…
bờ sông, bờ biển…
wybrzeże, nabrzeże, nadbrzeże…
strand, sjösida, [hon bor] vattnet…
kawasan dermaga…
städtisches Hafengebiet…
sjøside [masculine], vann [neuter], sjøside…
район порту…
прибрежная часть города…
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