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Curbside

Definition: Curbside

Curbside

Noun

1. The side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb; "policemen stood at intervals along the curbside".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Curbside

DomainDefinition

Transportation

The roadside alighting area for passengers immediately in front of the passenger terminal building entrace. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Curbside

Synonym by domain: kerbside (transportation).

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Commercial Usage: Curbside

DomainTitle

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Curbside

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Caption: Wilber B. Huston's Snapshots of His Trip to the 1929 Edison Scholarship Contest, Buses {Assembled at Curbside for Edison Scholarship Contestants and Guests?}; July-aug., 1929; {13.110/5} (jpg).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Curbside

"Curbside" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Curbside" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Curbside

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

curbside lyrics prophet

23

curbside jason lyrics mraz prophet

17

curbside prophet

15

curbside

6

curbside mail box

6

curbside recyclables

4

biodegradable collection curbside in plastic

4

curbside jason mraz prophet

4

appeal curbside

3

curbside recycling

2

curbside inc

2

cafe curbside

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Curbside

Language Translations for "curbside"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

járdaszegély (curb, curb-stone, kerb, kerb stone). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urbsidecay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Curbside

Derivations

Words beginning with "curbside": curbsides. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Curbside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cabside, Corsbie, Courbusier. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Curbside"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "curbside" (pronounced ker"bsī'd)
3-s ī' dbackside, bedside, blindside, broadside, countryside, dioxide, dockside, downside, fireside, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, glucoside, glycoside, graveside, harborside, herbicide, hillside, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, Ironside, lakeside, mountainside, oxide, peroxide, pesticide, poolside, prophesied, ringside, riverside, roadside, seaside, silverside, suicide, superoxide, underside, wayside.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Curbside

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-r-s-u"

-1 letter: bruised, burdies, cruised, scribed, suberic.

-2 letters: biders, brides, bruise, burdie, buried, buries, busied, busier, cebids, ciders, crudes, cruise, cubers, curbed, curies, cursed, debris, dicers, rebids, redubs, rubied, rubies, scribe, scried.

-3 letters: bices, bider, bides, biers, birds, birse, bride, bries, burds, burse, bused, cebid, cedis, cider, cires, cribs, cried, cries, crude, cruds, cruse, cubed.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-i-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: curbsides.

 

+2 letters: carburised, obduracies, rudbeckias, subscribed.

 

+3 letters: counterbids, disencumber, disturbance, subdirector.

 

+4 letters: cloudberries, debaucheries, decarburizes, destructible, disencumbers, disturbances, subdirectors, superscribed.

 

+5 letters: circumscribed, disencumbered, reproducibles, rubicundities, subdistricted, undescribable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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