lochside

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adjective

Bordering or near a loch.

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Meanings

adjectivelochside (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBordering or near a loch.

    Until the Crinan Canal was opened in 1801 there was little on this lochside spot apart from a 7th-century church.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 138, about Crinan
    1 more example

    […] a BBC behind-the-scenes documentary about the royal family’s life, showing the royals watching television, meeting visitors, holding a lochside barbecue while on holiday at Balmoral and even buying sweets in a local shop.

    September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian
nounlochside (plural lochsides)

plural lochsides

  1. The land bordering a loch.

    Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.

    2011, Iain R. Thomson, Isolation Shepherd

Origin

  1. Englishloch
  2. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  5. Old Englishsīde
  6. Middle Englishside
  7. Englishside
  8. Englishlochside

From loch + -side.

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APA

lochside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lochside

MLA

“lochside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lochside. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lochside,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lochside.

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