trackside
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
Example Sentences
- "This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition."
- "Many workers were killed as they squeezed into a trackside niche or the narrow space between tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train […]"
- "Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction."
- "Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m."
- "For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'."
Etymology
Etymology tree English track Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English trackside From track + -side.