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Waterfront vs Riverside - What's the difference?

waterfront | riverside |

As nouns the difference between waterfront and riverside

is that waterfront is the land alongside a body of water while riverside is a bank or side of a river.

As an adjective riverside is

at or near the side of a river.

As a proper noun Riverside is

a place name applied to a locality, especially a city, that is situated beside a river.

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.

    • riverside

    English

    Noun

  • A bank or side of a river.
  • * Gonna lay down my burden; Down by the riverside ...

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • At or near the side of a river.