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nounthe area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of watertype of:
Definition that contains waterfront
- seafront the waterfront of a seaside town
- dockyard an establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired
- barbary coast a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849)
- fireboat a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront