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View synonyms for sidewalk

sidewalk

[ sahyd-wawk ]

noun

  1. a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.


sidewalk

/ ˈsaɪdˌwɔːk /

noun

  1. a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a road Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)pavement


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sidewalk1

First recorded in 1660–70; side 1 + walk

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Example Sentences

One police officer was coolly dispatched as he lay wounded on the sidewalk.

Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him.

He now stood by the sidewalk shrine to the two fallen officers and said.

Only one of the crowd-control barriers was deployed, to close off a sidewalk as the royals arrived.

A 25-year-old man named Alexander Cooper strode up the sidewalk holding his 3-year-old daughter, Alexis, by the hand.

While the door was open he caught a glimpse of the street outside—and of Glavis on the sidewalk below.

The messenger looked both ways and finally turned up that sidewalk between the two tenements.

It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

The people make little effort to keep to the sidewalk, but let the fellow who is driving the car do the looking out for them.

How d'ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?

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