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 →

2) Roadside (before a noun) describes something beside a road: a roadside stall, roadside flowers. tree →

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 →
• Wildflowers grew along the roadside. tree →
• Never play at the roadside. tree →
• A farmer sold strawberries at a roadside stall. tree →
• Don't throw litter at the roadside. tree →
• The car broke down and we waited by the roadside. tree →
• There was an inn by the roadside. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «roadside» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.