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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roadside
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a roadside café (=a café beside a road)
▪ She was a waitress at a roadside café.
a roadside ditch (=along the edge of a road)
▪ His clothes were found in a roadside ditch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lorry similar to theirs was parked by the roadside and on the site there was feverish activity.
▪ After suffering my attentions at the roadside, Amin had summarily dismissed him.
▪ Five young people died when Goochs car ploughed into a roadside bench.
▪ Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.
▪ Mr Warren was arrested in Mayfair, London, in May 1990 after a roadside breath test proved positive.
▪ Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch.
▪ Stopping and searching vehicles at the roadside.
▪ They grow along the roadside and keep their meek little faces white and pure in the midst of the dust...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roadside

Roadside \Road"side`\, n. Land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roadside

1744, from road (n.) + side (n.).

Wiktionary
roadside

a. Located next to (beside) a road. n. The area on either side of a road.

WordNet
roadside

n. edge of a way or road or path; "flowers along the wayside" [syn: wayside]

Wikipedia
Roadside

Roadside is a term synonymous with road verge or shoulder (road).

It may also refer to:

  • Roadside, Caithness, Scotland, a village
  • "Roadside", a song from The Sufferer & the Witness by Rise Against
Roadside (musical)

Roadside is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt.

Based on Lynn Riggs' 1929 play of the same name, it focuses on "early-20th century folks who didn't care to be absorbed into statehood".

Usage examples of "roadside".

Then he went out to the roadside clachan which was Rinks, and turned his steps over the salty pastures to the riverside.

Now, to venture upon parading a beautiful young Duchess of Dewlap, with an odour of the shepherdess about her notwithstanding her acquired art of stepping conformably in a hoop, and to demand full homage of respect for a lady bearing such a title, who had the intoxicating attractions of the ruddy orchard apple on the tree next the roadside wall, when the owner is absent, was bold in Mr.

I begin to see the roadside stalls and even a little cluster of shops with names like Tek it Eazy, Katie Rouge Kitchins and Yaso Jerk Center.

It was threaded with rivers crossed by high bridges and, in the valleys and on the hillsides, mostly grown in what were clearly prosperous small or medium-sized holdings, coffee, kumquats, maize, avocado, peppers, with tomatoes and potatoes stacked by the roadside for collection, huge and red.

Many of these houses were roadside chayas, or tea-houses, and nearly all sold sweet-meats, dried fish, pickles, mochi, or uncooked cakes of rice dough, dried persimmons, rain hats, or straw shoes for man or beast.

He moved the horse carefully, the roadside littered again with muskets.

Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.

Evening stretched into early morning with the aid of many bottles of Barolo and Barbaresco, glasses of grappa distilled from the pomace of these grapes, and a deep draft from a roadside spring possessing diuretic properties.

The stories were that titanic battles were fought above Stye Head and on Honister between rival bands of robbers, disputing their plunder, and it was true enough that many a time, walking up Honister, you would find a dead man there, by the roadside, his throat cut or a knife in his belly and often enough stripped naked.

Hurriedly, in reverse, he sped back to the roadside marker, and, after the dust cloud had drifted away from his vehicle, gazed perplexedly for a full sixty seconds at the insolent inscription on the cross before angrily kicking open his door and circling around the car and ferociously tugging that hallowed symbol from the ground and chucking it irreligiously into the rear of the station wagon.

Twenty paces brought us to a spot where a stack of mangel wurzels stood at the roadside.

Each farm had two or three vicious hounds set to go off at the merest sound, rushing barkless and low out of the dark shadows of roadside trees to rip at his legs with jaws like scythes.

The trees at Tse Bonito Park were yellow, the roadsides were streaked with the purple of the last surviving October asters, and overhead the sky was the dark, blank blue.

The branchy top, hurled by the wind, crashed through other treetops and fell onto the roadside.

Bantam, a little old rat of a pony with a shaggy mane and long rusty tail, who stood dozing quietly by the roadside, little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him.