cityside en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-der. Proto-Italic *keiwis Latin ceivis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin ceivitās Late Latin cīvitātem (city) Old French citetbor. Middle English cite English city Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English cityside From city + -side.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Working in the city.
Now he is a cityside reporter being shifted from beat to beat, learning the ropes, learning Chicago, upward bound.
1988 July 22, Michael Miner, “A Doc and His Sox; Hotshot, Potshots: The Sun-Times Grooms a Star”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2015:
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(not-comparable) Relating to the city or town rather than the countryside.
The “split parkway on cityside" alternative would be constructed on the cityside slopes of the Dallas Floodway East and West levees and would have total^([sic]) of eight general-purpose lanes with four lanes along each levee.
2000, Upper Trinity River Basin, Trinity River, Programmatic EIS, page 34: