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Promenade vs Waterfront - What's the difference?

promenade | waterfront |

As nouns the difference between promenade and waterfront

is that promenade is a prom dance while waterfront is the land alongside a body of water.

As a verb promenade

is to walk.

promenade

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A prom (dance).
  • A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
  • A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise.
  • * 1900 , (Sigmund Freud), (The Interpretation of Dreams)'', '' , (translated by (James Strachey)) pg. 235:
  • The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
  • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
  • A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
  • Synonyms

    * (a place to walk) esplanade

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To walk.
  • To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
  • Derived terms

    * promenader (agent noun)

    waterfront

    English

    Alternative forms

    water front

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • The dockland district of a town.