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footpath
noun a grassed strip of land between the front boundary of a residential block and the edge of the road. Compare nature strip, verge.
Editor's comments: Is there anyone who uses the term "footpath" to refer to a "nature strip"?
Contributor's comments: [Sydney informant] To me a footpath is the concrete pathway outside the building alignment upon which pedestrians walk. Sometimes there may also be a nature strip beyond that before the gutter and roadway.
Contributor's comments: When I was growing up in Canberra and the Riverina, the footpath was the concrete or bitumen path along the edge of the nature strip for pedestrians.
Contributor's comments: In Melb, at least, the footpath is where the pedestrians walk; what Yanks call the `sidewalk'. It never occured to me that it was a regionalism, and I've never heard it used to refer to the nature strip, which is a grassy area next to the footpath, between the footpath and the road.
Contributor's comments: Footpath is used uniformly throughout Aust to describe the path by the side of the road - grassed or paved.
Contributor's comments: I've always lived in NSW and we've always used 'footpath' for the actual path of (usually) concrete, not the grassy area where the foothpath often is.
Contributor's comments: Certainly during the fifties when I was a boy growing up mainly in coastal Qld (outside Brisbane) the term footpath referred to the area between the fence or building line and the gutter or kerb. I never heard the expression nature strip until 1960 when new neighbours from Geelong arrived and they described the (unpaved) footpath as the nature strip.
Contributor's comments: [Adelaide informant] footpath, the track alongside the road be it grass/dirt/concrete. Only the rich suburbs had concrete footpaths when I was a kid the poor ones had grass or dirt.
Contributor's comments: In WA the footpath is where pedestrians walk. I've never known it to be called a nature strip. That is a separate part of the road verge between the footpath and the roadway.
Contributor's comments: I grew up in Forbes NSW, and footpath was the complete area between the fence line and the road. There were no concreted paths when I was young, in fact for many years there were no kerbs and gutters in the area in which I lived. I now live in Collaroy Plateau on Sydney's Northern Beaches, and we all call the same region the footpath. My husband form NZ always calls it the grass verge.