Definition of Dockland

1. Noun. The land area surrounding a dock ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dockland

1. the part of a port occupied by docks [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dockland

docking facility
docking fee
docking protein
docking station
docking stations
dockings
dockise
dockised
dockises
dockising
dockize
dockized
dockizes
dockizing
dockland (current term)
docklands
dockless
docklike
dockmackie
dockmackies
dockmaster
dockmasters
dockominium
dockominiums
docks
dockside
docksides
dockworker
dockworkers

Literary usage of Dockland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"(continued on page лги') THE dockland SETTLEMENTS URGENTLY NEED YOUR HELP FOR THEIR ... GIFTS COVENANTS DONATIONS LEGAC The General Secretary, dockland ..."

2. Out and about London by Thomas Burke (1919)
"BACK TO dockland FROM my earliest perceiving moments, docks and railway stations have been, for me, the most romantic spots of the city in which I was born ..."

3. Out and about: A Note-book of London in War-time by Thomas Burke (1919)
"... BACK TO dockland FROM my earliest perceiving moments, docks and railway stations have been, for me, the most romantic spots of the city in which I was ..."

4. About the Theatre: Essays and Studies by William Archer (1886)
"... should give a many-sided of dockland, picture of the strange region of dockland, so foreign to thousands of Londoners—a play which should concentrate ..."

5. Europe Real Estate Yearbook 2005: Assets, Industry Trends, Market Players by Dijkman, Schiller (2005)
"dockland On theformer site ofthe Bavaria brewery in St. Pauli, a new mixed used quarter will be developed. Bavaria-Gelände St. Pauli It has been dubbed ..."

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