side

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
2. (countable, uncountable) A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
3. (countable, uncountable) One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
4. (countable, uncountable) A region in a specified position with respect to something.
5. (countable, uncountable) The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
6. (countable, uncountable) One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
7. (countable, uncountable) One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
8. (countable, uncountable) One set of competitors in a game.
9. (Australia, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable) A sports team.
10. (countable, uncountable) A group of morris dancers who perform together.
11. (countable, uncountable) A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
12. (countable, uncountable) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
13. (countable, uncountable) Sidespin; english
14. (Australia, British, Ireland, countable, dated, uncountable) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
15. (Canada, Philippines, US, colloquial, countable, uncountable) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
16. (countable, uncountable) A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
17. (countable, uncountable) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
18. (dated, slang, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance; a conceited attitude.
19. (countable, uncountable) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
20. (countable, slang, uncountable) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
21. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A root.

Adj

1. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
2. Indirect; oblique; incidental.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
2. To lean on one side.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To suit; to pair; to match.
5. (transitive) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
7. (transitive) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.

Adj

1. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
2. (Scotland) Far; distant.

Adv

Widely; wide; far.

Verb

To clear, tidy or sort.

Synonyms

flank

edge

direction

part

party

🥳

border

beside

aspect

lateral

facet

faction

half

bank

🏦

surface

face

end

🔚

margin

alongside

rim

wing

🪽

group

slope

region

corner

arm

area

shore

place

wall

fringe

rib

quarter

brink

team

section

sidelight

hand

✋

river bank

perimeter

piece

brim

way

verge

accessory

waist

portion

periphery

English

extremity

page

Translations

côté

Seite

lado

lato

flanc

zijde

kant

lado

Flanke

fianco

costat

page

costado

Pronounced as (IPA)

/saɪd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: side

Inherited from Old English: sīde

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Siede

Cognate with Western Frisian: side

Cognate with Dutch: zijde

Cognate with German: Seite

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: side

Cognate with Swedish: sida

Inherited from Old English: sīd

Cognate with Dutch: zijd

Cognate with Low German: sied

Cognate with Swedish: sid

Cognate with Icelandic: síður

In summary

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.

Sentences

We talked of the side show in the circus .

They force their way through it and reappear on the other side .

A passage leads from the north side of the church to the vicarage .

Stapledon Wood , on the south-east side of Caldy Hill , is named after him .

Besson produces a four-valve non-compensating euphonium with the fourth valve on the side .