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View synonyms for riverside

riverside

1

[ riv-er-sahyd ]

noun

  1. a bank of a river.


adjective

  1. on or near a bank of a river.

Riverside

2

[ riv-er-sahyd ]

noun

  1. a city in SW California.

Riverside

/ ˈrɪvəˌsaɪd /

noun

  1. a city in SW California. Pop: 281 514 (2003 est)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of riverside1

First recorded in 1325–75, riverside is from the Middle English word river-syde. See river 1, side 1

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Example Sentences

He met up with an old professor at UC Riverside, who asked him to talk to his class and tell his story.

He knows it will be a work in progress forever, but hopes to add historical displays and a riverside memorial to honor the slaves.

His basketball team, the Riverside King, had just lost 68-60 to Compton Dominguez, and the 6-foot-7 forward dropped in 17 points.

I bundled Julia into a snowsuit, and we set off to Riverside Park.

We lived in a comfortable house in a riverside Jewish neighbourhood in Baghdad.

The crowd turned, slowly shambled down the riverside, and left us three standing there.

The writer was present in the riverside town of St Boniface on a certain still evening during the August of 1894.

A few small bushes grow in a little patch of vegetation by the riverside an hour higher up.

At Slane, a hill on the riverside about eight miles from its mouth, Saint Patrick built a beacon-fire.

At Riverside, the home of the orange, the two original Washington navel trees still stand.

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