RIVERSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Riverside mean? 

• RIVERSIDE (noun)
  The noun RIVERSIDE has 2 senses:

1. the bank of a river

2. a city in southern California

  Familiarity information: RIVERSIDE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVERSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bank of a river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

riverbank; riverside

Hypernyms ("riverside" is a kind of...):

bank (sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in southern California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Riverside" is a part of...):

CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)

 Context examples 

"Now," said the Scarecrow to the Tin Woodman, "you must go to those trees by the riverside and make a truck that will carry the Lion."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A team of researchers led by Dr. Anandasankar Ray at University of California, Riverside, set out to determine the neurons and receptors required for attraction to skin odor.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

In front, amid radiating lines of poplars, lay the riverside townlet of Cardillac—gray walls, white houses, and a feather of blue smoke.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it’s possible to achieve photon up-conversion, the emission of higher energy light, when using carefully designed structures containing silicon nanocrystals and specialized organic molecules.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view that process in real time and at the cellular level.

(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The body exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, which should have the effect of calling the attention of the authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)