Home › Words › S › sideroadsideroadsideroad means A lesser road leading off a main road.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sideroad ranks #30,036 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom side + road.nounA lesser road leading off a main road.e.g.“The path of renunciation has many sideroads.” — 1975, Dale E. Peterson, The clement vision: poetic realism in Turgenev and James, page 100:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.byway 71% match — A road or track not following a main route; a secondary or minor road or path. vs sideroad →sideway 70% match — A footpath near a road. vs sideroad →byroad 68% match — A road less frequented than a highway; a byway. vs sideroad →sidepath 64% match — A path for bicyclists located alongside a roadway. vs sideroad →roadside 64% match — Located beside a road (or railway). vs sideroad →bylane 64% match — A secondary lane. vs sideroad →sidetrack 63% match — A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding. vs sideroad →sidetrip 63% match — A short trip that one takes interrupting or as a break from a larger trip vs sideroad →