ROADSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roadside mean? 

• ROADSIDE (noun)
  The noun ROADSIDE has 1 sense:

1. edge of a way or road or path

  Familiarity information: ROADSIDE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROADSIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Edge of a way or road or path

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

roadside; wayside

Context example:

flowers along the wayside

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

edge (the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something)

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

way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)

 Context examples 

Two days later somebody picked it from the roadside mud.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled.

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

He sat down by the roadside to partake of his bread and cheese, and then with a lighter scrip he hastened upon his way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and panting as if he were tired.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Was it? I believe you are right,” said Tiffey,—“more than a mile off—not far from the church—lying partly on the roadside, and partly on the path, upon his face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By the roadside were many crosses, and as we swept by, my companions all crossed themselves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They left their wheels by the roadside and climbed to the brown top of an open knoll where the sunburnt grass breathed a harvest breath of dry sweetness and content.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gnarled olive trees covered the hills with their dusky foliage, fruit hung golden in the orchard, and great scarlet anemones fringed the roadside, while beyond green slopes and craggy heights, the Maritime Alps rose sharp and white against the blue Italian sky.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But here on a lone roadside, with thick woods and robber-knights, I turn to you, for it is the business to which you have been reared.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy opened her basket and got out some bread.

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