Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The area bordering on the side of a road.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The side of a road; border of a road; footpath; wayside.
- Situated by the side of a road.
Wiktionary
- adj. Located next to (beside) a road.
- n. The area on either side of a road.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. edge of a way or road or path
Etymologies
- From road + side. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Funny thing is the Amonium Nitrate that is being used in roadside bombs comes from aid agencies.”
“Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week.”
“Despite that increase and a 240 percent spike in roadside bomb attacks - a major factor in overall violence statistics - and increasing Taliban tactics to discredit President Hamid Karzai's government with shadow governments, some officials said they are seeing encouraging trends.”
“However, Mr. Baselitz's sculpture, which has become an increasingly important part of his oeuvre, isn't derived from what he calls "'art' art" but folk art, like popular depictions of the Christ figure found in German roadside cr [egrave] ches.”
“HOWEVER, Boren and his constituencies will be responsible for handing-over the presidency to John McWar, who will never surrender, who does not care that another 4,404 US soldiers die in roadside bombs, who is clueless on economics and our economy, THEN LIKE ROME, USA WILL FALL.”
“• Two soldiers were killed March 31 in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.”
“Flores, 20, of Lawton, Okla., was killed March 31 in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.”
“Rich fresh wine of June, we stagger into you smeared with pollen, overcome as the turtle laying her eggs in roadside sand.”
“At least 10 people were reported killed, including five U.S. soldiers who died in roadside bombings in Baghdad Saturday.”
“I had a flat tire this morning, and I called my roadside service people who sent a guy out to change the tire, but it turned out he could just pump it up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roadside’.
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all sides
sidecar, sidekick, sided, sidelong, sider, sideline, sidewise, sideways, sidetrack, sideslip, sidestep, sidepiece and 103 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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