poolside
poolside adjective: by the side of a pool.
Adjective
poolside (not comparable)
- By the side of a pool.
- She was sunbathing on the poolside deckchair.
- If L. bicolor occurs at the same site, then L. microbelos becomes the underdog and calls from the base of poolside grasses but if L. bicolor is absent, L. microbelos calls from the top of grass stems.1998, Michael J. Tyler, Australian Frogs: A Natural History, page 61
Adverb
poolside (not comparable)
- Beside a pool.
- Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers.1989, Douglas Gomery, “Hollywood's Business”, in American Media: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, page 93
- Turn on your TV pretty much any weekend and click through the channels, and soon you'll see an infomercial featuring a real estate genius sitting poolside at a swank vacation resort and explaining his simple system for getting rich, which he has decided, out of generosity, to share with everybody...2006, Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Money Secrets
Noun
poolside (plural poolsides)
- The area beside a pool.
- […] as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is, at least pro tem., as our pupils who first frighten the fish by walking down a poolside, and then fish up it, will find to their cost.1866, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers, page 306
- I am afraid the site, by a poolside where no Dane's boat could have got, negatives this, until other stations by navigable streams — the nearest is two miles to the east of the present site — are discovered.1882, F. Arnold Lees, “On a New British Umbillifer”, in Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 11, page 132
Examples of poolside in a sentence
- Sitting by the pool, Jan escapes into a Patricia Cornwell thriller while restless Anna, dissatisfied with the neglected poolside Japanese garden her mother had planted, pulls weeds.1999, Myra MacPherson, She Came to Live Out Loud:
- I was sitting with Uncle Meyer inside the Lanskys' poolside cabana watching retirees assert their waning vestiges of earthly power with gratuitous admonitions to other people's grandchildren […]2011, Eric Dezenhall, The Devil Himself: A Novel, page 232:
- After I arrived in Orange County on Saturday morning, Alissa and I spent most of our day talking poolside at her friend Kathy's house where I would stay for the weekend.2015, Matthew Jones, From Mushrooms to the Messiah:
- A ringing cell phone was no stranger at hotel poolsides, the upscale, plastic-dominated resort he'd been in for the past week being no exception.2013, Hanes Segler, Becomes the Truth, page 1:
Forms of poolside
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Origin of poolside
From pool + -side.
Questions about poolside
- What does poolside mean?
- Poolside means by the side of a pool.
- How do you use poolside in a sentence?
- Sitting by the pool, Jan escapes into a Patricia Cornwell thriller while restless Anna, dissatisfied with the neglected poolside Japanese garden her mother had planted, pulls weeds.
- What part of speech is poolside?
- Poolside can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
Words near poolside in the dictionary
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