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dockland

American  
[dok-land] / ˈdɒkˌlænd /

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. the land or area surrounding a commercial port.


dockland British  
/ ˈdɒkˌlænd /

noun

  1. the area around the docks

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of dockland

First recorded in 1900–05; dock 1 + land

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

“I want to get it back to what it once was,” said Brian Treacy, the president of the Sagamore Spirit Distillery, which opened in 2017 along a postindustrial stretch of Baltimore dockland.

From New York Times Feb. 14, 2019

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

I entered the house in Wade Street by the side door, and half an hour later let myself out by the front door, having cast off my dockland disguise.

From Tales of Chinatown by Rohmer, Sax

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