trackside
trackside adjective: located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
Adjective
trackside (not comparable)
- Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
- This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition.1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744
- Many workers were killed as they squeezed into a trackside niche or the narrow space between tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train […]2007 May 5, William Neuman, “Looking Back at 6 Decades of Subway Worker Deaths”, in New York Times
Noun
trackside (plural tracksides)
- The area that borders a track.
- Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.1980, Impatiens of Africa, page 122
- For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'.2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture
Forms of trackside
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | track-side |
| Noun | |
| plural | tracksides |
Origin of trackside
From track + -side.
Questions about trackside
- What does trackside mean?
- Trackside means located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
- What part of speech is trackside?
- Trackside can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near trackside in the dictionary
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