dockland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dockland
Example Sentences
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Gaynor and her friends Dawn Collins, Pauline Williams and Farida Mohamed are all granddaughters of men who travelled from their homelands and grew up in the close-knit dockland community together.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
Hasty was born in 1936 in Sailortown, a multicultural dockland in north Belfast, a decade before that other prodigy, George Best, was born in east Belfast.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
Roosegaarde’s studio is situated in Merwe-Vierhavens, an area of former dockland that the city government has designated an “innovation district.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2018
The city’s lack of historic context is obviously freeing, and has generated a tremendous quantity of late-twentieth-century architecture that plays off the scale, simplicity, and material of the modernist box and the dockland cranes.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
As my train drew to within half a dozen miles of its destination, I became vaguely conscious of the real inner London as distinguished from its extraordinary dockland and water approaches.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
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