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lochside

lochside adjective: bordering or near a loch.

Adjective

lochside (not comparable)

  1. Bordering or near a loch.
    • Until the Crinan Canal was opened in 1801 there was little on this lochside spot apart from a 7th-century church.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 138, about Crinan
    • […] a BBC behind-the-scenes documentary about the royal family’s life, showing the royals watching television, meeting visitors, holding a lochside barbecue while on holiday at Balmoral and even buying sweets in a local shop.September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian

Noun

lochside (plural lochsides)

  1. The land bordering a loch.
    • Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd

Forms of lochside

plurallochsides

Origin of lochside

From loch + -side.

Questions about lochside

What does lochside mean?
Lochside means bordering or near a loch.
What part of speech is lochside?
Lochside can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lochside in the dictionary

  1. Lochore
  2. lochos
  3. Lochridge
  4. Lochridges
  5. lochs
  6. lochside
  7. lochsides
  8. Lochte
  9. Lochtegate
  10. Lochty
  11. lochus

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