• Roadside

    Pronunciation

    Origin

    From road + side.

    Full definition of roadside

    Adjective

    roadside

    1. 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)http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/afghanistan-bombs-look-vehiclesDavid 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)
    1. The area on either side of a road.I pulled over to the roadside to check the map.

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