nearside

See also: near side

English

Etymology

near + side

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

nearside (plural nearsides)

1. (British) The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road.
   • 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 286:

     An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...].

2. (astronomy) The face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
3. (US, historical) A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.

Antonyms

• offside (road vehicle)
• farside (Moon)

Translations

face of the Moon

• Finnish: etupuoli (fi)

See also

• near side

Anagrams

• arsedine, arenides, areneids, arsenide, drainees, denaries