WAYSIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wayside mean? 

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

1. edge of a way or road or path

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAYSIDE (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 ("wayside" 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 ("wayside" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

But here is a man by the wayside, and as he hath two horses and a squire I make little doubt that he is a knight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fresh wind blew upon our faces, while the young leaves drooped motionless from the wayside branches.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On Thursday afternoons (half-holidays) we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside public-house.

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

Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable weald, for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.

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

Nay, nay, said the knight, these were not feats of arms, but mere wayside ventures and the chances of travel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A long stretch of road lay before us, barred with the shadows of wayside trees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth.

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

I had set out from Whitcross on a Tuesday afternoon, and early on the succeeding Thursday morning the coach stopped to water the horses at a wayside inn, situated in the midst of scenery whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North- Midland moors of Morton!) met my eye like the lineaments of a once familiar face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Indeed, my fair sir, you speak sooth,” quoth he with the club, while the other seated himself once more by the wayside.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)