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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

  1. (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:
  2. (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:

Synonyms

urban