roadside

English

Etymology

From road +‎ -side.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊdsaɪd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊdsaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

roadside (not comparable)

1. Located beside a road.

   The roadside stand did a good business just selling products to people who merely wanted directions.

   • 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles (in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)[1]

     David Cameron has said the government will "look carefully" at the use of heavily armoured vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while travelling in a Mastiff troop carrier.

Noun

roadside (plural roadsides)

1. The area on either side of a road.

   I pulled over to the roadside to check the map.

Synonyms

• side of the road

Derived terms

• roadside hawk

Translations

area on either side of a road

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 路邊／路边 (lou⁶ bin¹), 路边 (lou⁶ bin¹)

  Mandarin: 路邊／路边 (zh) (lùbiān), 路边 (zh) (lùbiān)

• Dutch: stoeprand (nl), berm (nl)
• Finnish: piennar (fi), tienlaita, tienvarsi
• Galician: cuneta f
• German: Straßenrand (de) m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veikant m, vegkant m

  Nynorsk: vegkant m

• Swedish: vägkant (sv) c, vägren (sv) c
• Tagalog: tabindaan, baybay-daan
• Westrobothnian: ,

Anagrams

• side road, sideroad