sidewalk

[sahyd-wawk]

noun

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

sidewalk

/ ˈsaɪdˌwɔːk /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sidewalk¹

First recorded in 1660–70; side ¹ + walk

Example Sentences

A man with a cane shows up at 9:58 and slowly makes his way from the sidewalk.

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Vendors hang out on the sidewalks to try to grab customers.

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Serve’s self-driving sidewalk robots are already making deliveries in the city—as well as in Miami, Dallas, Chicago, and Atlanta—through an existing partnership with Uber Eats.

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Yet when visiting a new city and using our phone to navigate, it can seem as if we are jumping from one spot to another, even though we are walking steadily along the same sidewalk.

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For decades, people used portable garden sprayers—knapsack-style water blasters—to wash debris from sidewalks.

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Related Words

• boardwalk 
• pavement 
• walkway