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.