seafront
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈsiːfrʌnt/
- UK
:
paseo marítimo
- Every morning, tourists stroll along the vibrant seafront, enjoying the sea breeze and local cafes.
- seafront hotel
- seafront boulevard
- walk along the seafront
Examples
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Most villas won't be on the seafront, and you will pay a premium for any that are.
Blog text (9) -
Yes, I believe it's the hotel on the seafront.
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Arm in arm, we walk along the seafront, then take the street that leads to the room.
Fiction book (1994) -
Not if you want a place by the seafront.
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I feel like I could run forever along the seafront...
Blog text (6) -
They found a hotel on the seafront avenue, an old hotel that was all white with a garden in the back.
Fiction book (2001) -
On Southport's stately seafront, the opening of a new art exhibition is drawing a late summer crowd.
Blog text (16) -
Ramani had been to Bandra that day, and he was talking about a bungalow on the seafront.
Fiction book (1994) -
At five o'clock sharp, I arrived on the seafront in Nice for a secret rendezvous with Agop Dagleian in a room I'd booked at Le Meridien Hotel.
Blog text (4) -
The newly restored Lyme Regis Museum, with its fossils, paintings, local lace, and other historical items, is built on the spectacular seafront site of the Anning family's first fossil shop.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
506
1.0
The land beside the sea or ocean
441
1.0
Land at the edge of a sea or lake
72
3.2
The area next to a river, lake, or sea with docks, shops, and restaurants
39
1.1
An area near the sea where people go for holidays
20
3.3
A strip of land by the beach with shops, hotels or parks
14
1.0
Land at the edge of the sea with sand or rocks
8
3.3
Land or property that faces the ocean
5
2.3
Land next to a beach with houses and shops
3
1.0
Land beside the sea or ocean
1
3.0
The area right next to the ocean where it meets the shore
1
3.6
Land at the edge of a lake or the sea
1
1.1
Land next to the sea or ocean
1
3.4
An area of land next to a body of water
1
6.4
A place name for an area or community by the sea
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Seafront is made of sea and front, and front means 'the side that faces something', like the front of a house. So seafront is the part of a town next to the sea — the area by the water where people walk, visit shops, and stay in hotels.