Meaning

4 senses
  1. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.

  2. Indirect; oblique; incidental.

    a side issue; a side view or remark

  3. (Scotland)Far; distant.

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

More definitions
  • located on a side

Examples

2494 sentences
  1. Lie down on your left side.

    Ляжте на лівий бік. — aandrusiak

    ruЛожитесь на левый бок. — corvard

    deLegen Sie sich auf die linke Seite. — corvard

  2. Don't always take sides with Tom.

    Не треба завжди бути на боці Тома. — deniko

    deStell dich nicht immer auf Toms Seite. — Naina

  3. I opened the passenger side door.

    Я відчинив пасажирські двері. — deniko

  4. This medicine doesn't have side effects.

    Ці ліки не мають побічних ефектів. — uaspeaker

    ruУ этого лекарства нет побочных эффектов. — Hellerick

    deDiese Medizin hat keine Nebenwirkungen. — sacredceltic

  5. I took his side in the argument.

    Я прийняв його сторону у суперечці. — deniko

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).

From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).

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Forms

more side, most side
Comparativemore side Lesson
Superlativemost side Lesson

regular

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsidth

Collocations

12 patterns
  • side of the
  • the other side
  • other side of
  • other side
  • side by side
  • the side of
  • on our side
  • side effects
  • side of town
  • on the side
  • by my side
  • on my side

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
side — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto