Word Meanings - SIDEWALK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
Related words: (words related to SIDEWALK)
- PAVEMENT
That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, - STREETWARD
An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell. - STREETWALKER
A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers. - STREET
Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. He removed Amasa from the street unto the field. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. - WALL STREET
A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center - BY-STREET
A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay. - OUTSTREET
A street remote from the center of a town. Johnson. - UPSTREET
Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.