wayside.

The side of a road or path, especially the adjoining ground.

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Words that belong together

• by the wayside
• a wayside shrine
• a wayside inn

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A wayside shrine stood where the road divided around the marsh.

They waited by the wayside until the procession had disappeared into dust.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular wayside; plural waysides, though usually the wayside. Also an invariable attributive adjective. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.