nearside

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nearside

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near + side

noun nearsides

UK The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road. An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...].
The face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
US, historical A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.

Opposite: offside, farside

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Opposite: offside, farside

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"nearside." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nearside. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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nearside. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nearside

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"nearside." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/nearside.

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@misc{nearside_2026,
  title = {nearside},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nearside},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}