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Bankside

Bankside

6.7
Land at the side of a river
  • noun
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  • During the summer, the bankside is a popular spot for fishing and relaxing by the water.

Examples

  • We decided to have a picnic on the bankside, enjoying the sights and sounds of the river.

  • Before heading down to the group at the water's edge, though, the sheriff stopped and took a long look east across the river, past last month's trouble here, to the bankside promontories of bluffs and badland ravines emerging in dawn outline like scissored shadows.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The children played happily along the bankside while the boats passed by.

Synonyms

bank
vsBankside
160 3.0

A raised slope of earth beside water or a road

refers to flat land along a river rather than a sloping rise
riverside
vsBankside
55 2.3

Land beside a river

is the same river edge area but can function as a place label
riverbank
vsBankside
24 1.3

The ground along the edge of a river

is the same river edge area but used as a general location
waterside
vsBankside
2 3.2

Land along the edge of a river or lake

is limited to the edge of a river rather than any water body
shorefront
vsBankside
1 3.6

Land at the edge of a lake or the sea

applies specifically to river edges rather than any shore
shoreland
vsBankside
1 3.4

Land next to water like a lake or sea

is narrower, referring only to land beside a river
shoreside
vsBankside
1 3.4

An area of land next to a body of water

is the pure river edge area rather than a service or storage zone
riverfront
vsBankside
3.7

Next to a river, describing buildings or areas

focuses on the general river edge itself, not on built areas

Surface Forms

Bankside singular
Banksides plural

Morphology

Bankside = bank + side (transparent) = bank + side

A straightforward compound meaning the area along a riverbank; the noun sense is directly derived from the components.

Etymology

Bankside is formed from bank ('land by a river') and side ('the edge'), so as a noun it names the land along a river. That is why people speak of the 'Bankside' when they mean the riverside area where people walk, sit, or have picnics.