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ROADSIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edge of a way or road or path
Example:
flowers along the wayside
Synonyms:
roadside; wayside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("roadside" is a kind of...):
edge (the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something)
Holonyms ("roadside" is a part of...):
way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)
Context examples:
I never shall forget seeing her fall backward on the hard road, and lie there with her bonnet tumbled off, and her hair all whitened in the dust; nor, when I looked back from a distance, seeing her sitting on the pathway, which was a bank by the roadside, wiping the blood from her face with a corner of her shawl, while he went on ahead.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
We came at last to the wooden gate with the high stone pillars by the roadside, and, looking through between the rails, we saw the long avenue of oaks, and at the end of this ill-boding tunnel, the pale face of the house glimmered in the moonshine.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He pointed as he spoke to a huge rough-hewn block which lay by the roadside, deep sunken from its own weight in the reddish earth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The languid stillness of the place was only broken by the chirping of this fire and by the voice of one of the Doctors, who was wandering slowly through a perfect library of evidence, and stopping to put up, from time to time, at little roadside inns of argument on the journey.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Three large stones formed a rough cot by the roadside, and beside it, basking in the sun, sat the hermit, with clay-colored face, dull eyes, and long withered hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had not far to go, however; for, on turning a corner, he came on a roadside cottage with a wooden fence-work around it, where stood big John and Aylward the bowman, staring at something within.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was the more surprised therefore when, on coming round a turn in the path, he perceived a man clad in the familiar garb of the order, and seated in a clump of heather by the roadside.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
