🚶 Edge of street ☕ Beside the street 🛒 By the street

streetside

1 3.1

At the side of a street next to shops or cafes

adjective
/ˈstriːtsaɪd/

: junto a la calle

The streetside vendor sold fresh fruits and vegetables to passing customers.
a streetside cafe

Examples

She admired the colorful flowers planted along the streetside, brightening up the otherwise dull pavement.
We found a cozy streetside cafe to enjoy our morning coffee while watching the world go by.
Give me something that connects my client at some streetside cafe somewhere in... do we even know where this was taken, Tracy?"

Parts Per Billion (2014)
You can stay on the streets with your friends and talk investments, pick up tips on hot stocks, tie into your accounts through streetside netstands to do your buying and selling, check interest and dividends, and, when you can't calculate numbers anymore, sleep between high rises until you wake before dawn to check your accounts again.

Fiction book (2001)
The people responded to El Gallego's streetside proclamation and marched a few blocks behind a flag that also declared, "Here fell a young one," until the police arrived and they had to disperse.

Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

on-street

vsstreetside

3 3.9

At the side of a street where people park or put signs

is beside or along a street without implying parking or traffic

Surface Forms

streetside positive

Morphology

streetside = street + side (transparent) = street + side

A direct compound of 'street' + 'side' whose meaning 'beside the street' is immediately recoverable by learners who know both words.

Etymology

Streetside comes from the common words street and side, which together mean 'the side of a street'. So when something is streetside (adjective), it is located next to the street or along its edge.