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[ wey-sahyd ] / ˈweɪˌsaɪd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wayside ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe side of the way; land immediately adjacent to a road, highway, path, etc.; roadside. adjectivebeing, situated, or found at or along the wayside: a wayside inn. Origin of waysideMiddle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at way1, side1 Words nearby waysideway out, way point, ways, ways and means, Ways and Means Committee, wayside, way station, way the wind blows, which, way to go, wayward, wayworn Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for waysideSome of these projects have fallen by the wayside; others may still be in the works. Guillermo del Toro on Hardcore Gothic ‘Crimson Peak’ and ‘Pacific Rim 2’|Andrew Romano|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST And as far as actual exploration and discovery, that gets thrown by the wayside. The Curious Passions of Mr. Cosmos: Neil deGrasse Tyson On Space, Climate, and Why Curiosity Wins Every Time|Scott Bixby|June 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST The re-positioning on issues that Priebus favored has fallen by the wayside, a casualty of the internal wars within the party. RNC Chair Reince Priebus Proclaims A Republican Tsunami Will Sweep Washington In 2014|Eleanor Clift|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Soon the others fall by the wayside, and we are left with Jones struggling to draw what notes he has left of him out into the air. Sondheim on Sondheim: American Musical Theater in Six Songs|Jimmy So|December 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
There was very little upward mobility; generation after generation fell to the wayside. Mohammed Atta and the Egypt Revolution|Terry McDermott|February 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST They would even come out and seat themselves on the point of a steep rock by the wayside. The Chinese Fairy Book|Various A long bend in the river took it so close to the road that the yard of a wayside inn ran right down to the water. The Yeoman Adventurer|George W. Gough But one blustering day, the wind carried a seed from the wayside weed into a florist's garden; it sprouted, rooted and bloomed. Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures|George W. Bain "You were painting, in the lane by the wayside," said the girl, suggestively. The Tree of Knowledge|Mrs. Baillie Reynolds The way to Laracor then lies along a flattish country, with a few huts here and there by the wayside. Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. I (of 2)|William Howitt
British Dictionary definitions for wayside
noun- the side or edge of a road
- (modifier) situated by the waysidea wayside inn
fall by the wayside to cease or fail to continue doing somethingof the nine starters, three fell by the wayside go by the wayside to be put aside on account of something more urgent Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with waysideThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to waysideon the road |