poolside

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “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.”

   “I was sitting with Uncle Meyer inside the Lanskys' poolside cabana watching retirees assert their waning vestiges of earthly power with gratuitous admonitions to other people's grandchildren […]”

adv

1. (not-comparable)Beside a pool.

   “Andy Warhol was lunching poolside, amid the palm trees and exotic bird-of-paradise flowers.”

   “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 getting rich, which he has decided, out of generosity, to share with everybody in the world.”

   “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.”

noun

1. 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 find to their cost.”

   “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.”

   “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.”