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
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
Glasgow has spent more than a decade redeveloping 130 acres of derelict shipyard and unused dockland in an effort to restore the waterway to its former glory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2012
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 Sax Rohmer
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