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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: the grassy area between the street and the sidewalk[edit]
Designation of this area varies significantly from dialect to dialect; some dialects and idiolects do not include a term for this area, and instead use a circumlocution.
Synonyms[edit]
- berm (regional, with other meanings)
- besidewalk
- boulevard (regional US, Canada)
- boulevard strip
- city easement (regional, with other meanings)
- common [⇒ thesaurus]
- county strip
- curb lawn
- curb strip (US)
- devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip (Akron, Ohio)
- drivestrip/drive strip
- easement
- extension lawn
- furniture zone
- grass bay
- grassplot
- hellstrip
- island strip
- landscape zone
- long acre
- median
- mow strip
- nature strip (Australia)
- neutral ground
- parking (Midwestern US)
- parking strip
- parkrow
- parkstrip/park strip
- parkway (regional US)
- parkway strip
- planter zone
- planting strip
- right-of-way
- road allowance
- road verge
- roadside
- shoulder
- sidewalk buffer
- sidewalk lawn
- sidewalk plot
- sidewalk strip
- street lawn
- subway
- swale
- terrace (regional US)
- tree belt
- tree box
- tree lawn (Midwestern US)
- utility strip
- verge (England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)