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sidings

sidings is the plural of siding.

Meaning of siding

Noun (1)

siding (countable and uncountable, plural sidings)

  1. (Canada, US) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
    • Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
    Synonyms:
    cladding

Noun (2)

siding (plural sidings)

  1. A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).
    • They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

Phrases with sidings

Questions about sidings

What is sidings the plural of?
Sidings is the plural of siding.

Words near sidings in the dictionary

  1. sidiki
  2. siding
  3. siding against
  4. siding with
  5. sidinged
  6. sidings
  7. sidiqi
  8. Sidique
  9. Sidiques
  10. siditty
  11. Sidlakan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sidings (page history and authors); siding (page history and authors). 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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