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roadside definition

road·side (-sīd′)

noun

the side of a road

adjective

on or at the side of a road a roadside park

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

roadside Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • line: Hundreds of flowers still line the roadside at the spot where the accident happened and candles are lit there each evening.

Converse of subject

  • see: Approaching the outskirts of Mo Bay, some good birds were seen by the roadside.

Adjective modifier

  • busy: Their loading bay was often obstructed by builders skips and other debris, forcing large articulated trucks to park on the busy roadside.

Modifies a noun

  • verge: Roadside verges were also looking very dry around the island.

Noun used with modifier

  • emergency: Uses to decide offers emergency roadside assistance often in california.

Preposition: in

  • area: Cattle & livestock drinking troughs Found in fields and at roadsides in the country areas.
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roadside quotes

When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneöby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.

-Parnell, Charles Stewart

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