seafront

/ ˈsiːˌfrʌnt /

noun

1. a built-up area facing the sea

Example Sentences

It moved from the famous pastel hotel facades of Miami's South Beach to the sprawling necklace of mansion apartments along Mumbai's Marine Drive seafront.

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Hundreds of people were on the seafront in Llandudno to mark Remembrance Sunday last weekend for the traditional period of silence and the laying of poppy wreaths.

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It would also be cheaper living a little further from the beach because seafront properties are regarded as more desirable and, because of the aforementioned hurricanes, can also have high insurance premiums.

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A statue of Terry Jones, celebrating him as the Nude Organist from Monty Python's Flying Circus, will be unveiled on the seafront of his home town of Colwyn Bay next year.

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Meanwhile the city's once-bustling seafront, where families gathered on summer evenings, has become a corridor of tents and broken concrete, the site of a mass migration through the ruins.

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Related Words

• coast 
• shore 
• waterfront