riverside

noun

Definition of riversidenext
as in riverbank

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Recent Examples of riverside Rudi Schreiner, a cofounder of the company, originally hoped to include El Banco but had to cut the town from the itinerary due to the Magdalena's arduously bendy approach to the riverside village. — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026 The flood also disrupted communications and transportation routes and prompted authorities to evacuate vulnerable riverside communities and issue warnings along the Bhote Koshi, Trishuli and Narayani rivers. — Justina Lee, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026 Dropping it onto likely pools without snaring the riverside vegetation required maximum focus. — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2026 Rice terraces along riverside had experienced landslides, dropping parts of their field into the river. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for riverside
Recent Examples of Synonyms for riverside
  1. riverbank
  2. riverfront
  3. waterfront
  4. bank
  5. oceanfront
Noun
  • Chinaman’s Bluff stood in for the field where James plays with Odin, and the Dart River was used as the meadow’s riverbank.
    — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2026
  • With bow and arrow in hand, Anghba finds his hunt for a wild boar across a riverbank interrupted by a raft floating downstream, as former tribespeople surround a jovial American preacher (Douglas Henshall), much to the chieftain’s chagrin.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of riverbank
Noun
  • At the park where the Rogerses lived, five campers now sit on riverfront lots where mobile homes were anchored into the soil until Helene hit.
    — Ren Larson, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The planner in me was as excited to search for the right Airbnbs as to stay in them; there were so many options to browse through, from farmhouses and A-frames to riverfront condos and tree houses.
    — Sara Sturek, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of riverfront
Noun
  • The letter, first reported by The New York Times, is the latest in a series of tensions over an iconic Potomac River waterfront building that has become a focus of the Republican president in his remaking of the nation’s capital in his second term.
    — Ali Swenson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Centre d’Art Marcel Gagnon is a riverside accommodation that immerses guests in the works of local artists, with 100 waterfront sculptures comprising a large-scale art installation and an on-site gallery.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of waterfront
Noun
  • My first inklings of this came in random encounters with Chinese people, in bank lines, on trains, or on the sidelines of public events.
    — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Kyiv is split in half by the Dnipro River, with the right bank home to the majority of the city’s business centers, offices and government institutions.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of bank
Noun
  • On Tuesday, September 8, a massive, 30-by-30-foot sinkhole opened directly in front of a Malibu oceanfront home reportedly belonging to Cage, swallowing his driveway whole.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2026
  • And history buffs hungering for more after the Battery Steele shouldn’t bypass the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, originally built as an oceanfront memorial in 1888, now full of exhibits on local history and the Civil War.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of oceanfront

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“Riverside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riverside. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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