wharf
UK/ˈwɔːf//ˈwɔɹf/
wharf noun: an artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
Noun
wharf (plural wharves or wharfs)
- An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
- Commerce pushes its wharves into the sea.1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC
- Out upon the wharfs they came, / Knight and burgher, lord and dame, / And round the prow they read her name, / The Lady of Shalott.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part IV, page 86
- Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.
- the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharfc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
Verb
wharf (third-person singular simple present wharfs, present participle wharfing, simple past and past participle wharfed)
- To secure by a wharf.
- To place on a wharf.
wharf meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wharf in Hindi
- artificial landing place
- घाट ghāṭ, जेटी jeṭī
wharf in Tamil
- கப்பல் துறை, நாவாய்த்துறை, கலத்துறை மேடை
wharf in Marathi
- वाॅर्फ, व्हार्फ
wharf in Urdu
- artificial landing place
- گھاٹ ghāṭ, جیٹی jeṭī
More languagesFewer languages
- wharf in Telugu
- వార్ఫ్
- wharf in Malayalam
- തുറ tuṟa
- wharf in Kannada
- ಹಡಗುಕಟ್ಟೆ, ಗೋದಿ
- wharf in Odia
- ୱାର୍ଫ, ୱାର୍ଫ୍
- wharf in Sanskrit
- घट्ट ghaṭṭa
- wharf in Assamese
- ঘাট ghat
- wharf in Nepali
- घाट
- wharf in Arabic
- رَصِيف raṣīf
- wharf in Malay
- dermaga
- wharf in Indonesian
- dermaga
- wharf in Thai
- ท่าน้ำ tâa-náam, ท่า tâa, ท่าเทียบเรือ tâa-tîiap-rʉʉa
- wharf in Vietnamese
- bến tàu
- wharf in Myanmar
- ဆိပ် hcip, ဆိပ်ကမ်း hcipkam:
Examples of wharf in a sentence
- The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.
- They moored the boat to the wharf.
- At Shanghai the ship lay at the Pootung wharf in the Whang Poo river.
Synonyms of wharf
Forms of wharf
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wharves |
| plural | wharfs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wharfs |
| present participle | wharfing |
| past participle | wharfed |
| past | wharfed |
Origin of wharf
From Middle English wharf, from Old English hwearf (“heap, embankment, wharf”); related to Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), Old Saxon hwerf (whence German Werft and Warft), Dutch werf, Old High German hwarb (“a turn”), hwerban (“to turn”), Old Norse hvarf (“circle”), and Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Words formed from wharf
- marginal wharfon
- Red Wharf Bay
- wharfage
- wharf borer
- wharf crab
- wharfie
- wharfinger
- wharfless
- wharf rat
- wharf roach
Phrases with wharf
Words that rhyme with wharf
Questions about wharf
- What does wharf mean?
- Wharf means an artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
- What is wharf in Hindi?
- Wharf in Hindi is घाट (ghāṭ), जेटी (jeṭī). See Wharf meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is wharf?
- Wharf can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wharf?
- Wharf is pronounced /ˈwɔːf/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wharf?
- The plural of wharf is wharves.
Words near wharf in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wharf (page history and authors); wharf (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wharf (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); wharf (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); തുറ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); wharf (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wharf (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ঘাট (Assamese) (page history and authors); wharf (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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