roadside

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɹəʊdsaɪd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɹoʊdsaɪd/

Adjective

roadside (not comparable)

1. Located 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)

     David 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.

   Synonyms: side of the road

   I pulled over to the roadside to check the map.

Translations

• German: Straßenrand

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