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riverside

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈɹɪvɚˌsaɪd//

A bank or side of a river.

noun

  1. 1

    A bank or side of a river.

    Near-synonym: riverbank

    Gonna lay down my burden; Down by the riverside...

    Staff have worked since February 10 to remove debris from the River Nith, install rock armour protection and strengthen the riverside before rebuilding and reprofiling the embankment.

Etymology

Etymology tree English rive English -er English river Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English riverside From river + side.

adjective

  1. 1

    At or near the side of a river.

    Near-synonym: riparian

Forms

plural
riversides
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).