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What is another word for watersides?

Pronunciation: [wˈɔːtəsˌa͡ɪdz] (IPA)

Watersides refer to areas along the banks of a body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean. There are various synonyms to describe these locations, each with its unique connotation. For instance, waterfronts evoke a sense of grandeur, often associated with bustling ports and harbors. The shoreline, on the other hand, implies a more natural setting, where land meets the water's edge. A quayside emphasizes the functional aspect of watersides - a place where cargo is loaded and unloaded. Meanwhile, a cove describes a small, sheltered inlet along a shoreline. Finally, bays offer a larger, open expanse of water, surrounded by land on three sides.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Watersides

His team beat the watersides yesterday, sixteen nothing.
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
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It is the waterside of watersides, where only one aspect of the world's life can be seen, and only one kind of men toils on the edge of the stream.
"The Mirror of the Sea"
Joseph Conrad

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  • This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a garden. It is a thing grown up, not made. It recalls a jungle by the confused, varied, and impenetrable aspect of the buildings that line the shore, not according to a planned purpose, but as if sprung up by accident from scattered seeds. Like the matted growth of bushes and creepers veiling the silent depths of an unexplored wilderness, they hide the depths of London’s infinitely varied, vigorous, seething life. In other river ports it is not so. They lie open to their stream, with quays like broad clearings, with streets like avenues cut through thick timber for the convenience of trade... But London, the oldest and greatest of river ports, does not possess as much as a hundred yards of open quays upon its river front. Dark and impenetrable at night, like the face of a forest, is the London waterside. It is the waterside of watersides, where only one aspect of the world’s life can be seen, and only one kind of men toils on the edge of the stream. The lightless walls seem to spring from the very mud upon which the stranded barges lie; and the narrow lanes coming down to the foreshore resemble the paths of smashed bushes and crumbled earth where big game comes to drink on the banks of tropical streams.
    Joseph Conrad

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