SIDE ROAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does side road mean? 

• SIDE ROAD (noun)
  The noun SIDE ROAD has 1 sense:

1. a minor road branching off of a main road

  Familiarity information: SIDE ROAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDE ROAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor road branching off of a main road

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("side road" is a kind of...):

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

 Context examples 

“It opens out into this back lane, which leads up to the stables. The other end of the lane goes out into the side road.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To make it the more extraordinary, there was no side road at this point down which he could have gone.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We’re on the side road to Godstone and Warlingham,” said my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You see that it runs east and west past the school, and you see also that there is no side road for a mile either way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There they are! Stole away! Stole away!” he cried, wheeling the mares round into a side road which struck to the right out of that which we had travelled.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the side road, yonder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage. I don't think anybody saw us but of course I can't be sure."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)