Meanings
- 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 Crinan1 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
plural lochsides
- 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
- Englishloch
- Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
- Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
- Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
- Old Englishsīde
- Middle Englishside
- Englishside
- Englishlochside
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Cite this entry
lochside. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lochside
“lochside.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lochside. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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