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wayside

/ˈweɪsaɪd/

wayside noun: the side of a road or path.

Noun

wayside (plural waysides)

  1. The side of a road or path.
    • Many wild flowers grew on the wayside.
    Synonyms:
    roadside
  2. A rest area.

Adjective

wayside (not comparable)

  1. Situated near the side of a road or path.
    • We stopped at a wayside pub.
    • Many of the wayside stations have staggered platforms, a common arrangement on the S.E.R.1957 August, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529

Proper noun capitalized: Wayside

Wayside

  1. A sitio in the barangay of Puguis, La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.

wayside meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

wayside in Urdu

سر راہ

wayside in Bengali

রাস্তা, পথের পার্শ্ব, বিশ্রামের এলাকা, পথের পাশে অবস্থিত

wayside in Malayalam

വഴിയോരം, നിരത്തുവക്ക്, പാതയോരം

Examples of wayside in a sentence

  • "The train pulled up at a small wayside station, and we all descended.
  • Throughout the years, milk drinking has fallen by the wayside as soda drinking has gained in popularity.
  • Octavius did not carry universal neighbourliness to the extent of encouraging prolonged wayside conversation.

All 17 example sentences with wayside

Synonyms of wayside

Forms of wayside

pluralwaysides

Origin of wayside

From Middle English waye syde, equivalent to way + side.

Words formed from wayside

Phrases with wayside

Questions about wayside

What does wayside mean?
Wayside means the side of a road or path.
What is wayside in Urdu?
Wayside in Urdu is سر راہ. See Wayside meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wayside?
Wayside can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce wayside?
Wayside is pronounced /ˈweɪsaɪd/.
What is the plural of wayside?
The plural of wayside is waysides.

Words near wayside in the dictionary

  1. ways of life
  2. ways of the world
  3. ways of thinking
  4. ways out
  5. ways to go
  6. wayside
  7. wayside cross
  8. wayside crosses
  9. wayside pulpit
  10. wayside pulpits
  11. waysider

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayside (page history and authors); Wayside (page history and authors); wayside (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wayside (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wayside (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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