roadside

English

Etymology

From road +‎ -side.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊdsaɪd/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊdsaɪd/
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

roadside (not comparable)

Located next to (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)
  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)

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)

Mandarin: 路邊 (zh), 路边 (zh) (lùbiān)
Dutch: stoeprand (nl), berm (nl)
Finnish: piennar (fi), tienlaita, tienvarsi
Galician: cuneta f
German: Straßenrand (de) m

Norwegian:
Bokmål: veikant m, vegkant m

Nynorsk: vegkant m
Swedish: vägkant (sv) c, vägren (sv) c
Tagalog: tabindaan, baybay-daan
Westrobothnian: stödu f, vägastödu f

Anagrams

side road, sideroad

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