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# roadside

«roadside» in Mova's school dictionary: **the ground at the edge of a road** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the roadside); adjective (roadside: a roadside café)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The roadside is the ground at the edge of a road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#m1)

2) Roadside (before a noun) describes something beside a road: a roadside stall, roadside flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Safety lessons: if a car breaks down, people wait at the roadside, away from traffic; walk facing oncoming traffic where there is no pavement. Science: roadside verges are home to wildflowers and insects. Everyday life: roadside stalls sell fruit. Phrases: by the roadside, at the roadside, roadside rubbish, a roadside stall.

### examples

- We stopped at the roadside to fix the tyre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x1)
- Wildflowers grew along the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x2)
- Never play at the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x3)
- A farmer sold strawberries at a roadside stall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x4)
- Don't throw litter at the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x5)
- The car broke down and we waited by the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x6)
- There was an inn by the roadside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/#x7)

### note

One word. Countable as an adjective use; usually «the roadside». Not the same as «pavement» or «sidewalk», which is made for walking.

### In the corpora

- [The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.813/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roadside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roadside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.