What does Roadside mean?

Definitions for Roadside
ˈroʊdˌsaɪdroad·side

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wayside, roadsidenoun

    edge of a way or road or path

    "flowers along the wayside"

Wiktionary

  1. roadsidenoun

    The area on either side of a road.

  2. roadsideadjective

    Located next to (beside) a road.

  3. Etymology: From road + side.

ChatGPT

  1. roadside

    Roadside generally refers to the area or strip of land alongside a road or highway. It often includes shoulders, ditches, sidewalks, verges, planting strips, or bicycle lanes, but does not include the road or carriageway itself. It's the space between the boundary line of a roadway and the adjacent property lines.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Roadsidenoun

    land adjoining a road or highway; the part of a road or highway that borders the traveled part. Also used ajectively

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Roadside in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Roadside in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Roadside in a Sentence

  1. Ramadi Al-Yassiri:

    There were three roadside bombs that took out two Humvees and killed five of us. Then they came at us with the bulldozers rigged with explosives.

  2. Jessica Brown:

    Some of the women found his number from roadside signs advertising cheap divorce. These women were typically low income and needing a divorce to get out of a bad situation.

  3. William James:

    Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

  4. Smithsonian Magazine:

    The Tin Can Tourists, named because they heated tin cans of food on gasoline stoves by the roadside, formed the first camping club in the United States, holding their inaugural rally in Florida in 1919 and growing to 150,000 members by the mid-1930s.

  5. Yves Faucon:

    They put us in a roadside ditch. We hid there the whole day, 80 of us, the first English soldiers we saw were flanked by Germans. They were prisoners.

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