riverfront

noun

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as in riverside

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Recent Examples of riverfront Bars and restaurants are getting into the spirit by serving traditional food, hosting bashes with spectacular riverfront views and bottomless drinks and bringing in Irish musicians and dancers. — Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025 Best Detroit scene: Most of the movie looks like it was shot elsewhere, but downtown and the riverfront get some screen time during an opening-credits montage with a lot of generic auto assembly footage. — Joe Guillen, Axios, 7 Mar. 2025 The plan calls for taking down the two 39-story office towers closest to the Detroit River and removing the base of the complex, then using the new open space to improve riverfront access from downtown. — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 9 Dec. 2024 Image The ship’s peeling black hull loomed over the industrial riverfront at Pier 82, opposite fast-food restaurants and an IKEA store across South Christopher Columbus Boulevard, as tugboats nudged the ship about 100 feet across the slip, a process that took hours. — Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for riverfront
Recent Examples of Synonyms for riverfront
  1. riverside
  2. waterfront
  3. riverbank
  4. oceanfront
  5. shorefront
Noun
  • The 26 cabins, each with a riverside balcony and lounge, are available with four-poster beds and a personal butler to complete the old-world experience.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
  • His teenage nephew was gunned down by police in a dark riverside alley during an anti-drug operation in suburban Caloocan city in August 2017.
    — Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of riverside
Noun
  • From hiking trails brimming with bright fall foliage to waterfalls and waterfronts to cool off summer vacationers, there's always a park to explore.
    — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of waterfront
Noun
  • Aspirations are large and small, ranging from building out new sections of the DuPage River walkway to ecological restoration along its riverbank.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • In 2018, workers building a new sewage tunnel along the riverbank discovered an intact 500-year-old skeleton with leather boots still on its feet.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of riverbank
Noun
  • The rustic yet luxurious accommodations range from studios to three-bedroom penthouses, offering oceanfront or mountain views.
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Related is also building a luxury oceanfront condo tower in Bal Harbour, Miami, called Rivage Residences Bal Harbour, that is offering a mega-mansion in the sky — combining two penthouses that could total more than 20,000 square feet and fetch over $150 million.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of oceanfront
Noun
  • Although Winnetka would hardly be the first affluent community where private residents have been accused of monopolizing water access (see Malibu, East Hampton, Nantucket, and Half Moon Bay), few places in America are more touchy about their shorefront than Chicago.
    — Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Camping from $10, cabins from $30 Thatch Caye Resort Occupying the shorefront of a private island 30 minutes off the coast of Dangriga, this resort hosts just 30 guests at a time.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
Definition of shorefront

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“Riverfront.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riverfront. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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