(adjective) relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater / (noun) a right (as access to or use of the shore, bed, and water) of one owning riparian land
By the time she’d pulled into Bortz’s subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.