waterfront

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The land alongside a body of water.
    — With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
  2. The land alongside a body of water.; The dockland district of a town.

词形变化

waterfronts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cover the waterfront

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English front
English waterfront
From water + front.
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