SIDEWALK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sidewalk mean? 

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

1. walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDEWALK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pavement; sidewalk

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

paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)

Meronyms (substance of "sidewalk"):

pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)

 Context examples 

Just before he reached the sidewalk, he remembered Minnie.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And then, on the crowded sidewalks there were persons innumerable whose attention he attracted.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A major component of many types of rocks on Earth, silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) is used in industrial sand-and-gravel mixtures to make concrete for sidewalks, roads and buildings.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

The 60,000 newly discovered structures include raised highways, urban centers with sidewalks, homes, terraces, industrial-sized agricultural fields, irrigation canals, ceremonial centers, a 30-meter high pyramid, fortresses and moats.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

"I am safe now," she said, when they emerged on the sidewalk, at the same time starting to take her hand from his arm.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study confirms that every time we gaze through a window, walk down the sidewalk or set foot on a pebbly beach, we are interacting with a material made by exploding stars that burned billions of years ago.

(Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass, NASA)

It wouldn't do any harm to try it, he decided, by the time they had reached the sidewalk; and he swung behind Ruth and took up his station on the outside.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Next his mind leaped to the Grand Hotel at Yokohama, where, too, from the sidewalk, he had seen grand ladies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He emerged from the theatre with the first of the crowd; but scarcely had he taken his position on the edge of the sidewalk when the two girls appeared.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their casual edging across the sidewalk to the curb, as they drew near, apprised him of discovery.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)