poolside
The area beside a pool.
Adjective
- By the side of a pool.
- She was sunbathing on the poolside deckchair.
- If L. bicolor occurs at the same site, then L. microbelos becomes the underdog and calls from the base of poolside grasses but if L. bicolor is absent, L. microbelos calls from the top of grass stems. - 1998, Michael J....
- Sitting by the pool, Jan escapes into a Patricia Cornwell thriller while restless Anna, dissatisfied with the neglected poolside Japanese garden her mother had planted, pulls weeds. - 1999, Myra MacPherson, She Came to...
Origin
Etymology tree English pool Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English poolside From pool + -side.
Adverb
- Beside a pool.
- Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers. - 1989, Douglas Gomery, “Hollywood's Business”, in American Media: The Wilson Quarterly Reader, page 93:
- Turn on your TV pretty much any weekend and click through the channels, and soon you'll see an infomercial featuring a real estate genius sitting poolside at a swank vacation resort and explaining his simple system for...
- After I arrived in Orange County on Saturday morning, Alissa and I spent most of our day talking poolside at her friend Kathy's house where I would stay for the weekend. - 2015, Matthew Jones, From Mushrooms to the...
Noun
- The area beside a pool.
- […] as it is evident the poet alludes to a trout that has caught sight of the angler, and safe he is, at least pro tem., as our pupils who first frighten the fish by walking down a poolside, and then fish up it, will...
- I am afraid the site, by a poolside where no Dane's boat could have got, negatives this, until other stations by navigable streams — the nearest is two miles to the east of the present site — are discovered. - 1882, F....
- A ringing cell phone was no stranger at hotel poolsides, the upscale, plastic-dominated resort he'd been in for the past week being no exception. - 2013, Hanes Segler, Becomes the Truth, page 1: