side

Meanings

Noun

• A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• 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.
• One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
• One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• One set of competitors in a game.
• A sports team.
• A group of morris dancers who perform together.
• A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
• Sidespin; english
• A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched .
• A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
• An unjustified air of self-importance.
• A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
• A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during homosexual intercourse.

Adjective

• Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
• Far; distant.

Verb

• To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
• To lean on one side.
• To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• To suit; to pair; to match.
• To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• To furnish with a siding.
• To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
• To clear, tidy or sort.

Adverb

• Widely; wide; far.

Related

Similar words

• edge
• face
• half
• page
• team
• channel, station
• take side

Narrower meaning words

• backside
• beachside
• curbside
• dayside
• downside
• driverside
• east side
• foreside
• hillside
• Humberside
• inside
• kerbside
• lakeside
• lineside
• Merseyside
• mountainside
• nearside
• nightside
• north side
• offside
• outside
• quayside
• riverside
• roadside
• seaside
• south side
• Speyside
• stateside
• Tameside
• Tayside
• topside
• trackside
• Tyneside
• underside
• upside
• westside

Origin

• From Middle English side, from Old English sīde, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sēy-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede, West Frisian side, Dutch zijde, zij, German Low German Sied, German Seite, Danish and Norwegian side, Swedish sida.
• From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sēy-. Cognate with Low German sied, Swedish sid, Icelandic síður.