sidewalk
UK/ˈsaɪdwɔːk//ˈsaɪdwɔk/
sidewalk noun: a paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
Noun
sidewalk (plural sidewalks)
- A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
- Stay on the sidewalk.
- Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN
- Any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road.
sidewalk meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sidewalk in Hindi
- paved footpath
- फ़ुटपाथ fuṭpāth, फुटपाथ phuṭpāth, पटरी paṭrī
sidewalk in Tamil
- நடைபாதை
sidewalk in Urdu
- paved footpath
- فَرْش farś, فُوٹ پاتھ fūṭ pāth, فُٹ پاتھ fuṭ pāth
sidewalk in Bengali
- paved footpath
- ফুটপাথ phuṭpath
More languagesFewer languages
- sidewalk in Telugu
- కాలిబాట kālibāṭa
- sidewalk in Malayalam
- നടപ്പാത
- sidewalk in Gujarati
- સાઇડવૉક, સાઈડવૉક, સાઇડવોક
- sidewalk in Pashto
- پياده رو pyāda ráw, پلي لار pǝ́lilãr
- sidewalk in Tagalog
- bangketa
- sidewalk in Arabic
- رَصِيف raṣīf, طَوَار ṭawār, طُوَار ṭuwār
- sidewalk in Malay
- laluan jalan kaki, trotoar
- sidewalk in Indonesian
- trotoar
- sidewalk in Thai
- ทางเท้า taang-táao, บาทวิถี bàat-wí-tǐi, ฟุตบาท fút-bàat
- sidewalk in Vietnamese
- vỉa hè
- sidewalk in Myanmar
- ပလက်ဖောင်း pa.lakhpaung:
Examples of sidewalk in a sentence
- The sidewalk was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- A sidewalk preacher gave an impassioned sermon while an assistant leafleted those who stayed to listen.
- A flower was growing, in stark contrast, out of the sidewalk.
Synonyms of sidewalk
Forms of sidewalk
| plural | sidewalks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | side-walk |
Origin of sidewalk
From side + walk.
Words formed from sidewalk
Phrases with sidewalk
Questions about sidewalk
- What does sidewalk mean?
- Sidewalk means a paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
- What is sidewalk in Hindi?
- Sidewalk in Hindi is फ़ुटपाथ (fuṭpāth), फुटपाथ (phuṭpāth), पटरी (paṭrī). See Sidewalk meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sidewalk?
- Sidewalk is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sidewalk?
- Sidewalk is pronounced /ˈsaɪdwɔːk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sidewalk?
- The plural of sidewalk is sidewalks.
Words near sidewalk in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sidewalk (page history and authors); sidewalk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sidewalk (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sidewalk (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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