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waterfront

noun

Definition of waterfront

as in beach

the land or the part of a town next to the water of an ocean, lake, etc. They have evening concerts on the waterfront.

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Recent Examples of waterfront And some waterfront residents have been known to illegally destroy wild rice plants near their docks intentionally to make room for their boats. — Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026 In the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz, a waterfront once busy with boats, trucks and workers has fallen quiet. — ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026 Finally, Piven makes it to the waterfront backyard, where Grenier is posted up on a yacht. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026 The five-story building on New London’s waterfront has been open about a year, and appears to be fully rented. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for waterfront

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Kent beach house Sheeran and Seaborn spent $879,000 on a two-bedroom beach house in Kent, England, in July 2022.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
Owners can step out the back door onto a private beach in the backyard and out the front gates to a yacht waiting at a private dock.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

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Yemeni government forces and their allies are relocating south along the Red Sea coast to Dhubab on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, across from Perim Island, according to government military sources.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2026
Then, flash forward, Marcia was back on our coast after her triumphant five or six years in New York, and suddenly Marcia and I had been shacked up for two years.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

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