beachfront

American  

[beech-fruhnt] / ˈbitʃˌfrʌnt /

noun

1. land fronting on a beach.

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adjective

1. located on or adjacent to a beach.

   beachfront property.

Etymology

Origin of beachfront

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; beach + front

Example Sentences

Speaking to Architectural Digest in 2024, Grede and her spouse explained that they fell in love with the beachfront property as soon as they saw it.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Ye purchased the beachfront concrete mansion in 2021— designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando — for $57.3 million.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Working with individual clients, I’d occasionally hear “how can that possibly be?” when they received an insurance quote for their beachfront house in Florida or California home exposed to wildfires.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Few scenes were more surreal after the firestorms than the miles of blackened homes along Malibu’s world-famous beachfront.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

"If I got paid twelve thousand dollars in 1962 for a half-acre beachfront lot, how much would that be worth per grain of sand by today's standard?"

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris