Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The area adjacent to a quay or wharf or a system of quays, especially in a port city.
Wiktionary
- n. An area alongside a quay
Etymologies
- quay + side (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The long road fronting the quayside was a riot of noise and color and people.”
“On the quayside is the old Priory Mill, now called Place Mill, which is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.”
“No. That grizzled, tough old lumberman who toted you along up from the quayside is the brain of this organisation.”
“The looming bow of this huge vessel now sits within touching distance of a quayside house.”
Voice of America: In Japanese Port Town, Hope Rises Amid Devastation
“Albion Quayside, London, is 5.5 hectares of flood-resilient quayside, park, marina and 850 houses in the Thames Gateway – the U.K.'s biggest regeneration area stretching 40 miles downstream from London along the Thames Estuary.”
“Car-free Burgazada can be toured by horse and buggy, or you could do as we did and just hang out by the pool until it was time for dinner on the quayside.”
The Guardian: Summer holidays: 10 best places for under-fives
“With little traffic around, we zoomed along, parking right on the quayside in St. Tropez.”
The Wall Street Journal: Pruning the Cost of Luxury on the Riviera
“Nearby on the quayside, fire brigade divers were readying a jetski for the rescue effort.”
The Guardian: Cruise ship scene marked by modern totem of disaster in medieval harbour
“The quayside photograph, number 83, is for the foot-fetishists of Stony Creek, who are not always catered for in art shows.”
“Hundreds of guests gathered by the quayside in southern England's port city Southampton, the home port of Cunard's 92,000-tonne ocean liner.”
The Huffington Post: Cunard's Queen Elizabeth Gets Blessed By The Actual Queen (PHOTOS)
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quayside’.
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Nautical Words
lubber, mizzenmast, circumnavigation, clipper, cordage, galleon, gangplank, gangway, flying bridge, following sea, schooner, amidships and 106 more...
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Wordie Working Overtime - some words ...
Some words of from XTC songs that I like or for some reason stand out. That and a dollar will get you a ride on the bus.
transistor, impaled, settee, sunspecs, neon, meccanic, infatuation, greenhouse, capers, consequence, excepted, helicopter and 112 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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