beside

English

Etymology

From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”), equivalent to be- +‎ side. Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈsaɪd/,
• (General American) IPA^(key): /biˈsaɪd/, /bəˈsaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Preposition

beside

1. Next to; at the side of.

   A small table beside the bed

2. Not relevant to.

   That is beside the point

3. Besides; in addition.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     To all beside, as much an empty shade,
     An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.

   • April 8 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Orange Blossom"

     O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with besides. See w:Adverbial genitive.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• besidely
• beside oneself
• besides
• beside the mark
• beside the point

Translations

next to

• Arabic: بِجَانِب‎ (ar) (bi-jānib)

  Egyptian Arabic: جَنْب‎ (ganb)

• Bulgarian: до (bg) (do), край (bg) (kraj), бли́зо (bg) (blízo)
• Cebuano: tapad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在...旁邊／在...旁边 (zh) (zài...pángbiān)

• Czech: vedle (cs)
• Dutch: naast (nl)
• Esperanto: apud (eo)
• Finnish: vieressä (fi), rinnalla (fi), jonkin vieressä
• French: auprès de (fr), à côté de (fr)
• Galician: a carón de (gl), onda (gl), cabo de (gl), á beira de
• German: neben (de)
• Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla), πλάι σε (plái se)
• Hebrew: לצד‎ (le'tzad)
• Hindi: ... की बग़ल में (... kī baġal mẽ)
• Hungarian: mellett (hu)
• Ido: apud (io)
• Irish: cois, in aice le, in aice
• Italian: accanto (it), vicino (it)
• Japanese: ...のそばに (ja) (...no soba ni)
• Korean: ...옆에 (ko) (...yeop-e)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەبن‎ (lebin), تەنیشت‎ (tenîşt)

  Northern Kurdish: li rex (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: juxta
• Maore Comorian: ɓavuni mwa
• Navajo: bíighahgi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ved (no), ved siden av (no)

  Nynorsk: ved, attmed

• Pashto: تر څنګ‎ (ter tsang)
• Persian: پهلوی‎ (fa) (pahlu-ye), کنار‎ (fa) (kenâr-e)
• Polish: obok (pl), przy (pl)
• Portuguese: ao lado de, do lado de (colloquial)
• Romanian: lângă (ro), alături (ro)
• Russian: ря́дом с (ru) (rjádom s) (+ instrumental case), о́коло (ru) (ókolo) (+ genitive case), во́зле (ru) (vózle) (+ genitive case), при (ru) (pri)
• Scottish Gaelic: ri taobh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̑ј, уз, по̏ред

  Roman: krȁj (sh), uz (sh), pȍred (sh)

• Slovak: vedľa, pri, popri
• Spanish: al lado de, cabe (es)
• Swedish: intill (sv), bredvid (sv)
• Thai: ข้าง (th) (kâang), ข้างเคียง (kâang kiang)
• Ukrainian: по́ряд (pórjad), по́руч (póruč)
• Vietnamese: bên (vi)
• Waray-Waray: takin, sapit
• West Frisian: njonken

not relevant to

• Dutch: naast (nl)
• French: outre (fr)
• German: neben (de)
• Greek: εκτός (el) (ektós)
• Norwegian: på siden
• Polish: poza (pl)
• Portuguese: irrelevante para
• Russian: поми́мо (ru) (pomímo) (+ genitive case)
• Slovak: mimo

Adverb

beside (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; else; besides.
   • 1817 (published 11 January 1818)​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 92:

     Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
     Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
     The lone and level sands stretch far away.

See also

• para-

Anagrams

• beedis