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lido

noun

Definition of lidonext
as in plage

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Recent Examples of lido The lido will be open from breakfast to sunset and provide seaside service, umbrellas and sunbeds. — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Escape the ruckus at a beach club, or lido, such as Pettolecchia Il Lido, a luxury spot between Bari and Brindisi. — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026 These mega-fans croon old hits, sip drinks on the lido deck, and bask in the tropical sun, deferring midlife crises over a long weekend of spicy adventure. — Hamilton Cain, Time, 22 Dec. 2025 His Tim Blake Nelson-starring debut Old Henry was the talk of the lido at 2021’s Venice Film Festival (and in the Obama household — the former president included it on his list of favorite films that year), catapulting Ponciroli to the big time. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for lido
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lido
  1. plage
  2. esplanade
  3. riverside
  4. littoral
  5. waterfront
  6. riverfront
  7. riverbank
Noun
  • People flock to the French-speaking city year-round, enjoying its Christmas markets in November and December, experiencing one of the world’s largest winter festivals in Carnaval de Quebec in February, and spending the summers viewing Montmorency Falls and swimming at la plage.
    — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2026
  • Cheval Blanc is uniquely well fixed in this respect, with its own small but entirely satisfactory sandy plage adjoining the central terrace, neatly dotted with lounge chairs and umbrellas.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of plage
Noun
  • There are now indications of construction in Disneyland’s esplanade between its two parks.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The previous year, Paris replaced part of its heat-radiating stone esplanade with a dense urban forest, including more than fifty large trees and twenty thousand shrubs and plants.
    — Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of esplanade
Noun
  • Highways, riverside communities and low-lying neighborhoods remain underwater, cutting off dozens of households, killing a Hanoi university student and three villagers, and forcing evacuations of at least 150 families.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Mud, water and rock inundated several riverside communities near the border with China, killing more than 1,400 people and leaving thousands more missing.
    — Tarun Gopalakrishnan, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of riverside
Noun
  • Think of all those islands on the southern littoral of Iran.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Hailing from the peninsula’s steppe interior, mountainous east, and Black Sea littoral, this population tended to be devoutly Muslim and, for the most part, had never been fully at ease with the republic’s secularist founding project.
    — Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
Definition of littoral
Noun
  • By the end of the 2020s, Combs will set foot back inside his palatial $48 million Miami waterfront home, warmly welcomed into the arms of those who have remained fiercely loyal to him.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • This week’s Club Sportico essay dives into the economics and broader trends surrounding 865 Neyland, a new waterfront entertainment district being built around the University of Tennessee’s 102,000-seat football stadium in Knoxville.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of waterfront
Noun
  • The riverfront design was led by Gaines with a team consisting of artists Sandie Bacon, Kenneth Cunny, Kathleen Brigidina, Joe Bednarski and Deb Anderson.
    — Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Explore the riverfront in Peoria, and pick pumpkins at Boggio’s.
    — Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 12 Sep. 2026
Definition of riverfront
Noun
  • Our favorite was The Beach, a flat piece of riverbank perfect for postprandial wine and s’mores.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Howard’s father told CBS News Chicago that his daughter’s body had been found on the riverbank around half a block from where the car was discovered in the water.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of riverbank

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“Lido.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lido. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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