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

In another clip, federal agents detained an elderly man sitting on the sidewalk near a liquor store, “making sure to put a handcuff on his hand as they helped him up.”

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"When officers arrived, they located both subjects sleeping on the sidewalk," Posen police said in a statement.

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Now, the larger format provides enough backroom space to sort donations, so garbage bags of donated clothing don’t spill out onto the sidewalk.

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He pointed to the cracked, narrow sidewalk on a bridge that connects the community to downtown, which Nashville had planned to fix with some $9.3 million of federal funds that were nixed.

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Surveillance footage from a nearby business reviewed by MS NOW shows Ventura Aguilar on the sidewalk five minutes before masked agents begin making arrests in South Los Angeles.

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Related Words

• boardwalk 
• pavement 
• walkway