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Webster 1913 Edition

Sidewalk

Side′walkˊ

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Noun.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.

[U.S.]

Definition 2025

sidewalk

sidewalk

English

Noun

sidewalk ‎(plural sidewalks)

(US) a footpath, usually paved, at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians; a pavement (UK) or footpath (Australia)
(US, by extension) any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road

Synonyms

(paved footpath): footpath, footway, platform, pavement

Translations

paved footpath

Arabic: رَصِيف m ‎(raṣīf), طَوَار m ‎(ṭawār), طُوَار m ‎(ṭuwār)
Armenian: մայթ (hy) ‎(maytʿ)
Basque: espaloi
Belarusian: тратуар m ‎(tratuár)
Bulgarian: тротоар m ‎(trotoár)
Catalan: vorera (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人行道 (zh) ‎(rénxíngdào), 步道 (zh) ‎(bùdào)
Czech: chodník (cs) m
Dutch: stoep (nl) f, m, trottoir (nl) n
Esperanto: trotuaro
Estonian: sillutis
Finnish: jalkakäytävä (fi)
French: trottoir (fr) m
Galician: beirarrúa (gl) f
Georgian: ტროტუარი ‎(ṭroṭuari)
German: Bürgersteig (de) m, Gehweg (de) m, Gehsteig (de) m, Trottoir (de) n (Switzerland, SW Germany)
Greek: πεζοδρόμιο (el) n ‎(pezodrómio)
Greenlandic: aqqutissiaq
Hungarian: járda (hu)
Icelandic: gangstétt f, fortóv n
Ido: trotuaro (io)
Indonesian: trotoar (id)
Interlingua: trottoir
Irish: cosán m
Italian: marciapiede (it) m

Japanese: 歩道 (ja) ‎(ほどう, hodō), 舗道 (ja) ‎(ほどう, hodō), 舗装 ‎(ほそう, hosō), 人道 (ja) ‎(じんどう, jindō)
Korean: 보도 (ko) ‎(bodo) (步道 (ko)), 인도 (ko) ‎(indo)
Latvian: trotuārs m
Lithuanian: danga (lt) f
Macedonian: тротоар m ‎(trotoár)
Malay: laluan jalan kaki, trotoar
Norwegian:

Bokmål: fortau n

Nynorsk: fortau n
Polish: chodnik (pl) m
Portuguese: calçada (pt) f
Romanian: trotuar (ro) n
Russian: тротуа́р (ru) m ‎(trotuár)
Scottish Gaelic: cabhsair m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: тротоар m, плочник m

Latin: trotoar (sh) m, pločnik (sh) m
Slovak: chodník m
Spanish: acera (es) f, andén (es) m (Colombia), banqueta (es) f (Guatemala, Mexico), escarpa (es) f (Southeastern Mexico), vereda (es) f (Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Swedish: trottoar (sv)
Tagalog: bangketa (tl)
Ukrainian: тротуар m ‎(trotuár)
Venetian: marciapìe (vec) m
Vietnamese: vỉa hè (vi)
Welsh: palmant (cy) m

See also

roadway and verge