side
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sīd, IPA(key): /saɪd/Category:English 1-syllable words#SIDECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SIDE
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /səɪd/Category:English 2-syllable words#SIDECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#SIDE
- Hyphenation: side
- Rhymes: -aɪdCategory:Rhymes:English/aɪd#SIDECategory:Rhymes:English/aɪd/1 syllable#SIDE
- Homophone: sighed (except Scotland)Category:English terms with homophones#SIDE
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SIDE side, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Old English#SIDE sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SIDE *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SIDE *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 and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010Category:English coinages#SIDE and popularized in 2013.[1][2] 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.[1][2]
Noun
side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English nouns#SIDECategory:English uncountable nouns#SIDECategory:English countable nouns#SIDECategory:English countable nouns#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A square has four sides.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- A cube has six sides.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. […] As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- Meet me on the north side of the monument.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 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.
- Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
- I generally sleep on my side.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- John wrote 15 sides for his essay!Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- She has a mean side (to her).Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- One set of competitors in a game.
- Which side has kick-off?Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (UKCategory:British English#SIDE, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#SIDE, IrelandCategory:Irish English#SIDE) A sports team.
- 1988, Ken Jones with Pat Welton Crown, Soccer skills & tactics, page 9:
- Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager, […].Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
- It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, 3rd edition, UK, page 220:
- Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides, preferring instead to send touring sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and the Public School Wanderers.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- "Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too," the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham:
- We have not always been of the […] same side in politics.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
- sets the passions on the side of truthCategory:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (musicCategory:en:Music#SIDE) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, page 41:
- But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (sportsCategory:en:Sports#SIDE, billiardsCategory:en:Billiards#SIDE, snookerCategory:en:Snooker#SIDE, pool) Sidespin; english
- He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (BritishCategory:British English#SIDE, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#SIDE, IrelandCategory:Irish English#SIDE, datedCategory:English dated terms#SIDE) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
- I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (USCategory:American English#SIDE, CanadaCategory:Canadian English#SIDE, PhilippinesCategory:Philippine English#SIDE, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#SIDE) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- his mother's side of the familyCategory:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
- To sit upon thy father David's throne, / By Mothers side thy father.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2016 February 27, Sean M. Teaford, Out on the Limbs: Searching for Answers in the Family Tree, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- Thankfully our son agreed and chose a name which, according to what I have been told is the name of the last in a long line of Rabbis on my wife's side.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (baseballCategory:en:Baseball#SIDE) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (slangCategory:English slang#SIDE, datedCategory:English dated terms#SIDE, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#SIDE) An unjustified air of self-importance; a conceited attitude.
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 32:
- Indeed, Yeere was rapidly beginning to forget what he had been. One of his own rank and file put the matter brutally when he asked Yeere, in reference to nothing, “And who has been making you a Member of Council, lately? You carry the side of half a dozen of ’em.”Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 11, in R. A. Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh:
- Theobald posed as the most ardent lover imaginable, but, to use the vulgarism for the moment in fashion, it was all “side.”Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1930, Frank Richards, “Tale-Bearer in Chief”, in The Magnet:
- His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (dramaCategory:en:Drama#SIDE) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- 2010, Viola Spolin, Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, page 12:
- Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2017, Dave Kost, Book of Sides II:
- The short scenes in this book are particularly useful for audition workshops since audition sides are rarely longer than two pages.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (LGBTQCategory:en:LGBTQ#SIDE slangCategory:English slang#SIDE) A person who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#SIDE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SIDE) A root.
- 1723, Edward Wells, The Young Gentleman's Arithmetick, and Geometry, page 127:
- And 9 is said to be the Square, 27 the Cube of 3, which is call'd the Side of 9 and 27, &c.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
Synonyms
- (bounding straight edge of an object): edge
- (flat surface of an object): face
- (left or right half): half
- (surface of a sheet of paper): page
- (region in a specified position with respect to something):
- (one possible aspect of a concept):
- (set of opponents in a game): team
- (group having a particular allegiance in a war):
- (television channel): channel, station (US)
Hyponyms
- A-side
- away side
- backside
- beachside
- beckside
- bent-side
- blindside
- bright side
- B-side
- buy side
- curbside
- dark side
- dark side of the Force
- dayside
- distaff side
- downside
- driverside
- east side, eastside
- epistle side
- foreside
- gospel side
- hanging side
- hillside
- home side
- inside
- kerbside
- lakeside
- leg side
- light side of the Force
- lineside
- mountainside
- nearside
- near side
- nightside
- north side
- offside
- on side
- open-side
- opposite side
- outside
- quayside
- right side
- riverside
- roadside
- seaside
- side gig
- side hug
- side money
- side of bacon
- side plank
- south side
- stateside
- supply side
- tankside
- Test side
- topside
- touring side
- trackside
- underside
- upperside, upper side
- upside
- westside
- wrong side
Derived terms
- airside
- alongside
- aside
- bankside
- bat for the other side
- bayside
- berthside
- beside
- besides
- bit on the side
- blueside
- boatside
- bodyside
- broadside
- brookside
- butter one's bread on both sides
- catch you on the flip side
- check side
- client-side
- cliffside
- coastside
- counterside
- coverside
- cradleside
- cribside
- damside
- darkside
- dawnside
- demand side
- dropside
- dryside
- duskside
- err on the side of
- err on the side of caution
- fellside
- fireside
- five-a-side
- fleetside
- flipside
- flip side
- from side to side
- frontside
- front-side bus
- gainside
- get on someone's bad side
- get on someone's wrong side
- get out of bed on the wrong side
- get up on the wrong side of bed
- get up on the wrong side of the bed
- green side
- greenside
- guide on the side
- have the laugh on one's side
- have time on one's side
- heelside
- high side
- hindside
- hitherside
- hullside
- Ironside
- keep one's side of the bargain
- kingside
- know which side one's bread is buttered on
- landside
- laugh on the other side of one's face
- laugh on the wrong side of one's face
- laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
- laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
- leeside
- look on the black side
- look on the bright side
- look on the bright side of it
- look on the dark side
- look on the dark side of it
- look on the gloomy side
- look on the positive side
- low side
- low side window
- manisided
- many-sided
- marshside
- midside
- myside bias
- negative side waterproofing
- northside
- no side
- not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
- off-side
- one side
- on one's side
- onside
- on someone's good side
- on someone's side
- on the debit side
- on the flip side
- on the other side of
- on the plus side
- on the right side of history
- on the safe side
- on the shady side of
- on the side
- on the side of the angels
- on the wrong side of history
- on the wrong side of the blanket
- on this side of
- openside
- other side
- other side of the coin
- other side of the tracks
- outerside
- out of the side of one's mouth
- parkside
- passenger-side
- pearlside
- pipe the side
- positive side waterproofing
- P-side
- queenside
- retire the side
- right side out
- right-side-out
- right side up
- rinkside
- roundside
- see the dark side of the moon
- sell side
- server-side
- server-side rendering
- sidal
- Side A
- sideache
- side arm
- sidearm
- sideart
- Side B
- side bacon
- side bag
- sideband
- sidebang
- sidebar
- sidebearing
- side bet
- side-bitch
- side bitch
- sideblade
- sideblog
- side-blotched lizard
- side-blown
- sideboard
- sidebone
- side boob
- side-boob
- sideboob
- side booty
- sidebox
- sideboy
- sidebuffer
- sideburden
- sideburn
- sideburns
- side by each
- side by side
- side-by-side
- side cap
- sidecar
- side-cast
- side cast
- sidecast
- side center
- side chain
- sidechaining
- side chair
- sidechannel
- side-channel
- side chest
- side-chick
- side chick
- sidecurl
- sidecut
- sidedish
- side-dish
- side dish
- side door
- sidedress
- side drum
- side effect
- side-effect
- side-effecting
- side entrance
- side-eye
- side eye
- side-eyed
- sideface
- side flash
- side-foot
- sidefoot
- sideform
- side-gaze
- sidegaze
- side gaze
- sideglance
- sidegrade
- side grafting
- sidegroup
- sidehack
- sidehacker
- sidehacking
- side-hand
- side-handed
- side-handedly
- sidehead
- sidehill
- side horse
- side hustle
- side issue
- side job
- sidekick
- sidelamp
- sidelength
- sideless
- side letter
- side-lever
- sidelight
- sidelighting
- side line
- side-line
- sideline
- sideling
- sideload
- side-loader
- side-lobe
- sidelobe
- sidelock
- side-lock
- sidelong
- sidelot
- sidely
- sideman
- sidemeat
- side mirror
- side mission
- sidemode
- sidemounted
- side mover
- sideneck
- side-necked turtle
- side-netting
- side netting
- side nigga
- sidenote
- side note
- side-on, side on
- side order
- side out
- sidepath
- sideperson
- side piece
- sidepiece
- sidepipe
- side plate
- sideplating
- side play
- sidepod
- sidepost
- side pot
- side prime
- sideproduct
- side puck
- sidequel
- sidequest
- side rail
- side raise
- side return
- side road
- sideroad
- siderod
- side-saddle, sidesaddle
- side salad
- sidescraper
- sidescreen
- side scroller, side-scroller
- side-scrolling
- sidescrolling
- sideseam
- sideshadow
- side shot
- side show
- sideshow
- sideslip
- side-slip
- side-split
- sidesplit
- sidesplitter
- side-splitting
- sidesplitting
- side-splittingly
- sidestall
- sidestep
- sidestick
- side-straddle hop
- sidestream
- side street
- side-striped jackal
- sidestroke
- side surf
- side swimmer
- sideswipe
- side-swipe
- side-taking
- side talk
- side ting
- sidetone
- side tool
- side-to-side
- side to side
- sidetrack, side track
- side triceps
- sidetrip
- side valve
- sideview
- sidewalk
- side wall
- sidewall
- sideward
- sidewards
- sideway
- sideways
- side-wheel
- sidewheel
- sidewheeler
- side-whiskered
- side whiskers
- side-whiskers
- side-wife
- sidewind
- sidewinder
- sidewise
- sidewoman
- sidework
- sidewound
- Side X
- sideyard
- sidies
- siding
- silverside
- slideflask
- slideglass
- southside
- spear side
- split one's sides
- S-side
- starboard-side
- stepside
- strike out the side
- sunny-side down
- sunny side down
- sunny side up
- sunny-side up
- Sydneysider
- take a walk on the wild side
- take sides
- the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest
- the grass is always greener on the other side
- the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
- the rough side of one's tongue
- the wrong side of
- this side of the black stump
- thorn in someone's side
- threeside
- time is on one's side
- toeside
- t'othersider
- trackside
- tubside
- upper side
- wake up on the wrong side of bed
- walk on the wild side
- wallside
- wayside
- weakside
- wetside
- wharfside
- wrong side of the tracks
- wrong side out
Translations
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Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English adjectives#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
- One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- a side issue; a side view or remark
- [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- The law hath no side respect to their persons.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
Translations
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English verbs#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#SIDE) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- Which will you side with, good or evil?Category:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Great Place”, in Essays:
- All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto V:
- All side in parties, and begin the attack.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1958, Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
- How does it feel... to... side in with those who voted against you in 1947?Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- To lean on one side.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SIDE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SIDE) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
- His blind eye that syded Paridell.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SIDE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#SIDE) To suit; to pair; to match.
- 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
- He had ſure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted , who I think ſided him
- 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SIDE, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SIDE) To furnish with a siding.
- to side a houseCategory:English terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#SIDE, cookingCategory:en:Cooking#SIDE) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- 1995, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 166:
- Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2009 March 14, Corey Mintz, “Stop and cheer chefs' dedication to quality”, in Toronto Star:
- A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
Synonyms
- (ally oneself):
- take side
Derived terms
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#SIDE side, syde, syd, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Old English#SIDE sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SIDE *sīd, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SIDECategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SIDE *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SIDE *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”).
Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English adjectives#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- (UKCategory:British English#SIDE archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#SIDE, dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#SIDE, Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#SIDE, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SIDE) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth”, in A Confutation of Unwritten Verities:
- But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and now he jetteth in london wyth side gown and sarcenet typet as good a virgin priest as the best.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1575, Robert Laneham, “The auncient Minstrell described”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth in 1575, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1907, page 38:
- Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 47-50]:
- What doe we make dost thou aske? why we make faces for feare: such as if thy mortall eyes could behold, would make thee water the long seames of thy side slops […]Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
- By my troth, ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold, and cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel […]Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- (ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#SIDE) Far; distant.
Derived terms
Adverb
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English adverbs#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)Category:English lemmas#SIDECategory:English verbs#SIDECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:
- Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 1897, Sir Hall Caine, The Manxman - Volume 2, page 304:
- Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
- 2001, Audrey Howard, The Seasons Will Pass:
- As it had done then, Clare's heart, in a constant state of stress these days, missed a beat now, and she turned hastily to the table where she was siding the dinner things, doing her best to hide her expression which surely would give her away.Category:English terms with quotations#SIDE
References
- 1 2 Joe Kort (16 May 2022), “Gay "Sides": How Language Frees Us to be Ourselves”, in Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, retrieved 17 January 2025:
- […] in 2013 when, in an article I wrote for the Huffington Post, “Guys on the Side,” I created the term “side” for gay men who aren’t into being a “top” or a “bottom” or practicing anal penetration. […] The term “Side” was created when in 2010, I was talking with some colleagues about “tops” […] and “bottoms” […] and outed myself for being a gay man who doesn’t engage in anal intercourse at all. I joked, “Boxes have a bottom and a top—why can’t men like me be sides?
- 1 2 Joe Kort (16 April 2013), “Guys on the ‘Side’: Looking Beyond Gay Tops and Bottoms”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 7 June 2019:
- What about gay men who have never engaged in anal sex and never will, ever? ¶ I think they deserve a name of their own. I call them “sides.” ¶ Defining a Side ¶ Sides prefer to kiss, hug and engage in oral sex, rimming, mutual masturbation and rubbing up and down on each other, to name just a few of the sexual activities they enjoy. These men enjoy practically every sexual practice aside from anal penetration of any kind. They may have tried it, and even performed it for some time, before they became aware that for them, it was simply not erotic and wasn’t getting any more so. Some may even enjoy receiving or giving anal stimulation with a finger, but nothing beyond that.
Anagrams
- Edis, Desi, eids, deis, ESDI, DESI, Ides, IEDs, SEID, EIDs, sied, IDEs, ides, Eids, Dies, Dise, dies, desi
Danish
Alternative forms
- s. (abbreviation)
Etymology
From Old DanishCategory:Danish terms inherited from Old Danish#SIDECategory:Danish terms derived from Old Danish#SIDE sithæ, from Old NorseCategory:Danish terms inherited from Old Norse#SIDECategory:Danish terms derived from Old Norse#SIDE síða.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsiːdə/, [ˈs̺iːð̩˕˗ˠ]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#SIDE
- Rhymes: -iːdəCategory:Rhymes:Danish/iːdə#SIDECategory:Rhymes:Danish/iːdə/2 syllables#SIDE
Noun
side c (singular definite siden, plural indefinite sider)Category:Danish lemmas#SIDECategory:Danish nouns#SIDECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Danish common-gender nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- side; a bounding straight edge or surface
- side; a region in a specified position with respect to something.
- viewpoint an opinion or attitude
- side; one group of competitors in a game or a war.
- page; one surface of a sheet of paper.
- site; a website or internet site
Declension
Further reading
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-FinnicCategory:Estonian terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#SIDECategory:Estonian terms derived from Proto-Finnic#SIDE *sidek. Equivalent to siduma + -eCategory:Estonian terms suffixed with -e#SIDE.
Noun
side (genitive sideme, partitive sidet)Category:Estonian lemmas#SIDECategory:Estonian nouns#SIDECategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Inflection
| Declension of side (ÕS type 4/ase, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | side | sidemed | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | sideme | ||
| genitive | sidemete | ||
| partitive | sidet | sidemeid | |
| illative | sidemesse | sidemetesse sidemeisse | |
| inessive | sidemes | sidemetes sidemeis | |
| elative | sidemest | sidemetest sidemeist | |
| allative | sidemele | sidemetele sidemeile | |
| adessive | sidemel | sidemetel sidemeil | |
| ablative | sidemelt | sidemetelt sidemeilt | |
| translative | sidemeks | sidemeteks sidemeiks | |
| terminative | sidemeni | sidemeteni | |
| essive | sidemena | sidemetena | |
| abessive | sidemeta | sidemeteta | |
| comitative | sidemega | sidemetega | |
Compounds
Noun
side (genitive side, partitive sidet)Category:Estonian lemmas#SIDECategory:Estonian nouns#SIDECategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- communication (especially one achieved through technology)
- signal (especially in radio)
- communications (as a field)
- (colloquialCategory:Estonian colloquialisms#SIDE) post office
Inflection
| Declension of side (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | side | sided | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | side | ||
| genitive | sidede | ||
| partitive | sidet | sidesid | |
| illative | sidde sidesse |
sidedesse | |
| inessive | sides | sidedes | |
| elative | sidest | sidedest | |
| allative | sidele | sidedele | |
| adessive | sidel | sidedel | |
| ablative | sidelt | sidedelt | |
| translative | sideks | sidedeks | |
| terminative | sideni | sidedeni | |
| essive | sidena | sidedena | |
| abessive | sideta | sidedeta | |
| comitative | sidega | sidedega | |
Compounds
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-FinnicCategory:Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic#SIDECategory:Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic#SIDE *sidek. Equivalent to sitoa (“to bind, tie”) + -eCategory:Finnish terms suffixed with -e#SIDE.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsideˣ/, [ˈs̠ide̞(ʔ)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#SIDECategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#SIDE
- Rhymes: -ideCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ide#SIDECategory:Rhymes:Finnish/ide/2 syllables#SIDE
- Syllabification(key): si‧de
- Hyphenation(key): si‧de
Noun
sideCategory:Finnish lemmas#SIDECategory:Finnish nouns#SIDECategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- bandage, dressing (medical binding or strip of cloth used as a blindfold)
- bond (that which binds, a band)
- bond (emotional link, connection or union)
- sanitary towel, sanitary napkin
- Synonyms: terveysside, kuukautisside
- (anatomyCategory:fi:Anatomy#SIDE) ligament
- Synonym: ligamentti
Declension
| Inflection of side (Kotus type 48*F/hame, t–d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | side | siteet | |
| genitive | siteen | siteiden siteitten | |
| partitive | sidettä | siteitä | |
| illative | siteeseen | siteisiin siteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | side | siteet | |
| accusative | nom. | side | siteet |
| gen. | siteen | ||
| genitive | siteen | siteiden siteitten | |
| partitive | sidettä | siteitä | |
| inessive | siteessä | siteissä | |
| elative | siteestä | siteistä | |
| illative | siteeseen | siteisiin siteihin | |
| adessive | siteellä | siteillä | |
| ablative | siteeltä | siteiltä | |
| allative | siteelle | siteille | |
| essive | siteenä | siteinä | |
| translative | siteeksi | siteiksi | |
| abessive | siteettä | siteittä | |
| instructive | — | sitein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
- eturistiside
- haavaside
- heimoside
- ideaaliside
- johdinside
- jousiside
- kannatinside
- kantalenkkiside
- kantaside
- kantoside
- kieliside
- kiintoside
- kipsiside
- kiristysside
- kuukautisside
- kärkiside
- leposide
- nippuside
- nivelside
- paineside
- perhesiteet
- pikaside
- puristusside
- ristiside
- sideaine
- sideaines
- sideharso
- sidekaari
- sidekalvo
- sidekisko
- sidekudos
- sidelanka
- sidepalkki
- sidepisto
- sidepultti
- siderulla
- sidesalaatti
- sidesana
- sidetaitos
- sidetarvike
- sidetiili
- sidevokaali
- sivuside
- sukkaside
- suksiside
- sukulaisuusside
- suoliluu-sääriside
- sääriside
- terveysside
- tukiside
- tunneside
- valkuaisside
- veriside
- vinoside
- yhdysside
- ystävyysside
Related terms
Further reading
- “side”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
sīdeCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#SIDECategory:Latin verb forms#SIDECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Manx
Etymology
From Old IrishCategory:Manx terms inherited from Old Irish#SIDECategory:Manx terms derived from Old Irish#SIDE saiget, from LatinCategory:Manx terms derived from Latin#SIDE sagitta.
Pronunciation
Noun
side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)Category:Manx lemmas#SIDECategory:Manx nouns#SIDECategory:Manx entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Manx feminine nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Related terms
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “saiget”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#SIDECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#SIDE sīde.
Alternative forms
Noun
sideCategory:Middle English lemmas#SIDECategory:Middle English nouns#SIDECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Descendants
References
- “sīde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
sideCategory:Middle English alternative forms#SIDECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- alternative form of seed (“seed”)
Middle Irish
Etymology
Category:Middle Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SIDECategory:Middle Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sed-#SIDEFrom Old IrishCategory:Middle Irish terms inherited from Old Irish#SIDECategory:Middle Irish terms derived from Old Irish#SIDE síd, from Proto-CelticCategory:Middle Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic#SIDECategory:Middle Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic#SIDE *sīdos (“mound (inhabited by fairies); peace”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Middle Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#SIDECategory:Middle Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SIDE *sēds, from *sed- (“to sit”).
Noun
side mCategory:Middle Irish lemmas#SIDECategory:Middle Irish nouns#SIDECategory:Middle Irish entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Middle Irish masculine nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Derived terms
- áes side (“people of the fairy mounds, supernatural beings, fairies”)
Descendants
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 síd, síth ‘fairy mound’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 síd, síth ‘peace’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse#SIDE síða.
Pronunciation
Noun
side f or m (definite singular sida or siden, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#SIDECategory:Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- side
- på høyre side ― on the right-hand sideCategory:Norwegian Bokmål terms with usage examples#SIDE
- (of a case) aspect
- (on animal) flank
Derived terms
- austside
- bakside
- dalside
- diskusjonsside
- farsside
- fjellside
- forside
- fremside
- havside
- heimeside
- hjemmeside
- innside
- morsside
- nettside
- nordside
- overside
- side om side
- side ved side
- sidebane
- sideelv
- sidegate
- sidekant
- sidelengs
- sidelinje
- sidemål
- sidespor
- sidestykke
- sideveis
- sidevind
- -sidig
- sydside
- sørside
- tilsidesette
- underside
- utside
- venstreside
- vestside
- østside
- åsside
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse#SIDE síða. Akin to English side.
Noun
side f (definite singular sida, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- ei bok på 300 sider
- a book of 300 pages
- a side (various, though not all senses)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
sideCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk adjective forms#SIDECategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
References
- “side” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From the adjective sīd.
Adverb
sīdeCategory:Old English lemmas#SIDECategory:Old English adverbs#SIDECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Etymology 2
From Proto-GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SIDECategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SIDE *sīdǭ, whence also Old High German sīta.
Noun
sīde fCategory:Old English lemmas#SIDECategory:Old English nouns#SIDECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Old English feminine nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Declension
Weak n-stem:
Descendants
Etymology 3
From Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#SIDE *sīdā (whence also Old High German sīda (“silk”)), from Late LatinCategory:Old English terms derived from Late Latin#SIDE sēta (“silk”), Classical Latin saeta (“bristle”).
Noun
sīde f (nominative plural sīdan)Category:Old English lemmas#SIDECategory:Old English nouns#SIDECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Old English feminine nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Synonyms
Descendants
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sideCategory:Old Irish non-lemma forms#SIDECategory:Old Irish pronoun forms#SIDECategory:Old Irish entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- inflection of suide:
- nominative/accusative singular masculine unstressed
- genitive singular feminine unstressed
Mutation
Ternate

Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
sideCategory:Ternate lemmas#SIDECategory:Ternate nouns#SIDECategory:Ternate entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
- a sail
Verb
sideCategory:Ternate lemmas#SIDECategory:Ternate verbs#SIDECategory:Ternate entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Conjugation
Alternative forms
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old FrisianCategory:West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian#SIDECategory:West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian#SIDE sīde, from Proto-GermanicCategory:West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#SIDECategory:West Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#SIDE *sīdǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
side c (plural siden, diminutive sydsje)Category:West Frisian lemmas#SIDECategory:West Frisian nouns#SIDECategory:West Frisian entries with incorrect language header#SIDECategory:West Frisian common-gender nouns#SIDECategory:Pages with entries#SIDECategory:Pages with 14 entries#SIDE
Derived terms
Further reading
- “side (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
