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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

side•walk n. [countable]

a usually paved walk at the side of a roadway.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

side•walk n.

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

side¹ + walk 1660–70

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

sidewalk / ˈsaɪdˌwɔːk/

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

'sidewalk' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

banquette - boulevard - bow-iron - boxball - bridge - bystander - café - cinder - concrete - culvert - curb - footway - freeze - frontage - graffiti - litter - marquee - moving sidewalk - neutral ground - parkway - pavement - pavement artist - pooper-scooper - roller skate - scratch - sidewalk artist - sidewalk sale - sidewalk superintendent - sidewalking - snowbank - special assessment - street - tree lawn - vend - verge - walk - walk-down - walkway

In Lists: Street objects, Road terms, more...

Synonyms: footway, footpath, paved area, pavement, foot pavement, more...

Collocations: go to a sidewalk café, sidewalk [repairs, maintenance, construction], at a sidewalk sale, more...

Forum discussions with the word(s) "sidewalk" in the title:

a busload of schoolchildren < dives from the sidewalk >
a car parked along a sidewalk
A concrete paver sidewalk. A walkway paved with...?
a person...the sidewalk
Boardwalk/sidewalk/street treats
car on sidewalk?
come out into/onto pavement/sidewalk
Drive out on/onto the sidewalk
footpath [=sidewalk /pavement?]
Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really formed a ladder
gently <drifts> onto the sidewalk
gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk.
Hanging out over the sidewalk
He broke off and agitated the sidewalk to a bumpy gallop.
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Is it the ivy or the sidewalk?
It was a meter away from where I stood on the sidewalk.
It was one meter away on the sidewalk from where I stood.
It's <a/the> sidewalk/pavement.
long moonlit avenues of sidewalk
look at the piece of sidewalk he slipped on
on <a><the> sidewalk
On the sidewalk home
on the snow-confected sidewalk
one sidewalk/pavement on <both sides/each side> of the street.
out into/onto the street (from the sidewalk)
pavement BE [sidewalk AE]
seven stories to the sidewalk
She galloped to the sidewalk with him like Superman
she watches the truck go past a sidewalk cafe
more...

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