side
noun
[ sʌɪd ]
• a position to the left or right of an object, place, or central point.
• "a town on the other side of the river"
• an upright or sloping surface of a structure or object that is not the top or bottom and generally not the front or back.
• "a car crashed into the side of the house"
• a part or region near the edge and away from the middle of something.
• "a minibus was parked at the side of the road"
Similar:
edge,
border,
verge,
boundary,
margin,
fringe,
fringes,
flank,
brink,
bank,
brim,
rim,
lip,
perimeter,
circumference,
extremity,
periphery,
limit,
outer limit,
limits,
bound,
bounds,
hand,
marge,
bourn,
skirt,
• a person or group opposing another or others in a dispute, contest, or debate.
• "the two sides agreed to resume border trade"
Similar:
faction,
camp,
bloc,
clique,
caucus,
entente,
axis,
ring,
party,
wing,
splinter group,
sect,
clan,
set,
• a particular aspect of a situation or a person's character.
• "her ability to put up with his disagreeable side"
• a television channel considered as one of two or more that are available.
• "what's on the other side?"
• subsidiary to or less important than something.
• "a side dish of fresh vegetables"
Similar:
subordinate,
lesser,
lower,
lower-level,
secondary,
minor,
peripheral,
incidental,
tangential,
marginal,
ancillary,
subsidiary,
subservient,
non-essential,
inessential,
immaterial,
borderline,
irrelevant,
beside the point,
of little account,
extraneous,
unimportant,
less important,
• horizontal spinning motion given to a ball.
• boastful or pretentious manner or attitude.
• "there was absolutely no side to him"
Similar:
pretension,
pretentiousness,
affectation,
affectedness,
ostentation,
ostentatiousness,
artificiality,
attitudinizing,
airs,
airs and graces,
superciliousness,
posing,
posturing,
showing off,
boasting,
boastfulness,
hypocrisy,
snobbery,
show,
flashiness,
pomposity,
pompousness,
flatulence,
grandiosity,
grandness,
snootiness,
guyver,
fustian,
• either of a pair of things.
• "a pair of shoes, one side winged by a bullet"
side
verb
• support or oppose in a conflict, dispute, or debate.
• "he felt that Max had betrayed him by siding with Beatrice"
Similar:
support,
give one's support to,
take the part of,
take the side of,
be on the side of,
stand by,
stand up for,
stick up for,
be supportive of,
encourage,
back,
back up,
give one's backing to,
uphold,
take to one's heart,
be loyal to,
defend,
come to the defence of,
champion,
ally (oneself) with,
associate oneself with,
sympathize with,
favour,
prefer,
abet,
aid and abet,
• provide with a side or sides; form the side of.
• "the hills that side a long valley"
Origin:
Old English sīde ‘left or right part of the body’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zijde and German Seite, probably from a base meaning ‘extending lengthways’.
side by side
• (of two or more people or things) close together and facing the same way.
• "on we jogged, side by side, for a mile"
Similar:
alongside (each other),
beside each other,
abreast,
level,
shoulder to shoulder,
cheek by jowl,
together,
close together,
