poolside
/pˈulsˌaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She was sunbathing on the poolside deckchair."
- "If L. bicolor occurs at the same site, then L. microbelos becomes the underdog and calls from the base of poolside grasses but if L. bicolor is absent, L. microbelos calls from the top of grass stems."
- "Sitting by the pool, Jan escapes into a Patricia Cornwell thriller while restless Anna, dissatisfied with the neglected poolside Japanese garden her mother had planted, pulls weeds."
- "I was sitting with Uncle Meyer inside the Lanskys' poolside cabana watching retirees assert their waning vestiges of earthly power with gratuitous admonitions to other people's grandchildren […]"
- "Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers."
- "Turn on your TV pretty much any weekend and click through the channels, and soon you'll see an infomercial featuring a real estate genius sitting poolside at a swank vacation resort and explaining his simple system for getting rich, which he has decided, out of generosity, to share with everybody in the world."
Etymology
Etymology tree English pool Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English poolside From pool + -side.