dockland.

An area of a port containing docks and associated warehouses, yards, and industrial buildings.

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Words that belong together

• a dockland district
• derelict dockland
• dockland redevelopment

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Beyond the station, dockland gave way to a line of unfinished apartment towers.

The old dockland retained the smell of diesel long after the cargo routes moved upriver.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural docklands commonly denotes dock districts. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.