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sidewalk

noun
/ˈsaɪdwɔːk/UK/ˈsaɪdwɔk/US/ˈsaɪdwɑk/

Etymology

From side + walk.

  1. derived from *walg-✻ — “to twist, turn, move”
  2. inherited from *walkaną✻ — “to roll, toss, turn, wind; to walk, wander, wend; to full, trample”
  3. inherited from *walkan✻
  4. inherited from wealcian — “to curl, roll up, twist; to wrinkle”
  5. inherited from wealcan — “to move around; to revolve; to roll; to fluctuate; to discuss”
  6. inherited from walk
  7. formed as sidewalk — “side + walk”

Definitions

  1. A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.

    • Stay on the sidewalk.
    • Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.
    • Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said body camera video and footage from a nearby business appear to show the suspect charge at officer Travis Brown near a sidewalk during the Friday night protests.

  2. Any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road.

The neighborhood

Derived

roll up the sidewalks, sidewalk artist, sidewalk cafe, sidewalk café, sidewalk chalk, sidewalk elevator, sidewalk library, sidewalk superintendent

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sidewalk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sidewalk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sidewalk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA