dockland

[dok-land]

noun

Chiefly British.

1. the land or area surrounding a commercial port.

dockland

/ ˈdɒkˌlænd /

noun

1. the area around the docks

Word History and Origins

Origin of dockland¹

First recorded in 1900–05; dock ¹ + land

Example Sentences

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

There are no strikes currently planned on the Elizabeth line, Overground, London Trams or Dockland Light Railway services.

From BBC

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

In 2011, he launched what would become a series of annual ideas conferences, the Mad Symposiums, where invited speakers – everyone from the head of the European Environmental Agency to Japan’s most celebrated soba noodle maker – would address an audience of superchefs, interns, farmers, journalists and industry figures on a patch of Copenhagen dockland.

From The Guardian

“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