Is there a word for the end of a bridge?
I would like to say that someone is standing at the end of a bridge, waiting to meet someone else.
Is there a word for the end of the bridge, besides just 'end'?
I'm thinking something like a river's mouth.
It is called a head.
Either end of a bridge. [OED]
It is usually used as head of the bridge.
Another similar term is a bridgehead, which is mainly used as a military term, defined in OED as a fortification covering or protecting the end of a bridge nearest the enemy. [Translation of French tête de pont : tête, head + de, of + pont, bridge.]
AHD also gives another definition of bridgehead:
The area immediately adjacent to the end of a bridge.
transpontine = far side of the bridge
transpontine adjective:
situated on the farther side of a bridge
(Merriam Webster)