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See also: Side, sìde, and -side

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). 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”).

Noun

side (plural sides)

  1. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
    A square has four sides.
  2. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
    A cube has six sides.
  3. 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.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
      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.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      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.
  4. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
    Meet me on the north side of the monument.
    • 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.
  5. 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.
    I generally sleep on my side.
    • 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, p. 234:
      Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting.
  6. 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!
  7. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
    Look on the bright side.
  8. One set of competitors in a game.
    Which side has kick-off?
  9. (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
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    • 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.
    • 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.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.
  10. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
    In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
    • 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.
      Audio (US)(file)
    • (Can we date this quote by Walter Savage Landor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      We have not always been of the […] same side in politics.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      sets the passions on the side of truth
  11. (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
    • 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, p. 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.
  12. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
    He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
  13. (British, Australia, Ireland, dated) 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.
  14. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
    Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
  15. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
    his mother's side of the family
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      To sit upon thy father David's throne, / By mother's side thy father.
  16. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
    Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.
  17. (slang, dated) An unjustified air of self-importance.
    • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Tale-Bearer in Chief
      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.
  18. (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
    • 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.
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
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
television channel — see channel
side dish — see side dish

Adjective

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

  1. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
  2. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
    a side issue; a side view or remark
    • (Can we date this quote by Hooker and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The law hath no side respect to their persons.

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
    Which will you side with, good or evil?
    • 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays – "Of Great Place":
      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.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      All side in parties, and begin the attack.
    • 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?
  2. To lean on one side.
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  3. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      His blind eye that sided Paridell.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
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  5. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
  6. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
    to side a house
  7. (transitive, cooking) 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 […]
    • 2009 March 14, Corey Mintz, “Stop and cheer chefs' dedication to quality”, in Toronto Star‎[1]:
      A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream.
Synonyms
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Etymology 2

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

Adjective

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

  1. (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
    • c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth,”[2]
      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.
    • 1575, Robert Laneham, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth in 1575, edited by F. J. Furnivall, London: Chatto & Windus, 1907, “The auncient Minstrell described,” p. 38,[3]
      Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.
    • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 47-50,[4]
      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 […]
    • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 4,[5]
      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 […]
  2. (Scotland) Far; distant.
Derived terms

Adverb

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

  1. (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

Verb

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  1. 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 ;
    • 1897, Sir Hall Caine, The Manxman - Volume 2, page 304:
      Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard.
    • 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.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse síða.

Pronunciation

Noun

side c (singular definite siden, plural indefinite sider)

  1. page

Declension

Declension of side
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative side siden sider siderne
genitive sides sidens siders sidernes

Further reading

Estonian

Etymology

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Noun

side (genitive sideme, partitive sidet)

  1. bond, binding
  2. bandage

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)

  1. communications
  2. 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

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsideˣ/, [ˈs̠ide̞(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: si‧de

Noun

side

  1. bandage
  2. bond
  3. sanitary towel
  4. (anatomy) ligament

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.
Possessive forms of side (Kotus type 48*F/hame, t-d gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative siteeni siteeni
accusative nom. siteeni siteeni
gen. siteeni
genitive siteeni siteideni
siteitteni
partitive sidettäni siteitäni
inessive siteessäni siteissäni
elative siteestäni siteistäni
illative siteeseeni siteisiini
siteihini
adessive siteelläni siteilläni
ablative siteeltäni siteiltäni
allative siteelleni siteilleni
essive siteenäni siteinäni
translative siteekseni siteikseni
abessive siteettäni siteittäni
instructive — —
comitative — siteineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative siteesi siteesi
accusative nom. siteesi siteesi
gen. siteesi
genitive siteesi siteidesi
siteittesi
partitive sidettäsi siteitäsi
inessive siteessäsi siteissäsi
elative siteestäsi siteistäsi
illative siteeseesi siteisiisi
siteihisi
adessive siteelläsi siteilläsi
ablative siteeltäsi siteiltäsi
allative siteellesi siteillesi
essive siteenäsi siteinäsi
translative siteeksesi siteiksesi
abessive siteettäsi siteittäsi
instructive — —
comitative — siteinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative siteemme siteemme
accusative nom. siteemme siteemme
gen. siteemme
genitive siteemme siteidemme
siteittemme
partitive sidettämme siteitämme
inessive siteessämme siteissämme
elative siteestämme siteistämme
illative siteeseemme siteisiimme
siteihimme
adessive siteellämme siteillämme
ablative siteeltämme siteiltämme
allative siteellemme siteillemme
essive siteenämme siteinämme
translative siteeksemme siteiksemme
abessive siteettämme siteittämme
instructive — —
comitative — siteinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative siteenne siteenne
accusative nom. siteenne siteenne
gen. siteenne
genitive siteenne siteidenne
siteittenne
partitive sidettänne siteitänne
inessive siteessänne siteissänne
elative siteestänne siteistänne
illative siteeseenne siteisiinne
siteihinne
adessive siteellänne siteillänne
ablative siteeltänne siteiltänne
allative siteellenne siteillenne
essive siteenänne siteinänne
translative siteeksenne siteiksenne
abessive siteettänne siteittänne
instructive — —
comitative — siteinenne
third-person possessor
singular plural
nominative siteensä siteensä
accusative nom. siteensä siteensä
gen. siteensä
genitive siteensä siteidensä
siteittensä
partitive sidettään
sidettänsä 		siteitään
siteitänsä
inessive siteessään
siteessänsä 		siteissään
siteissänsä
elative siteestään
siteestänsä 		siteistään
siteistänsä
illative siteeseensä siteisiinsä
siteihinsä
adessive siteellään
siteellänsä 		siteillään
siteillänsä
ablative siteeltään
siteeltänsä 		siteiltään
siteiltänsä
allative siteelleen
siteellensä 		siteilleen
siteillensä
essive siteenään
siteenänsä 		siteinään
siteinänsä
translative siteekseen
siteeksensä 		siteikseen
siteiksensä
abessive siteettään
siteettänsä 		siteittään
siteittänsä
instructive — —
comitative — siteineen
siteinensä

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) sīde

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sīdō

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish saiget, from Latin sagitta.

Noun

side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)

  1. arrow, bolt, shaft

Related terms

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
side hide
after "yn", tide		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish síd, from Proto-Celtic *sedos, *sīdos (“mound (inhabited by fairies)”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēds, *sed- (“seat”).

Noun

side m

  1. fairy hill or mound

Derived terms

  • áes side (“people of the fairy mounds, supernatural beings, fairies”)

Descendants

  • Irish: sí

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
side ṡide unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse síða.

Noun

side f or m (definite singular sida or siden, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)

  1. a page (e.g. in a book)
  2. side
    på høyre side ― on the right-hand side
  3. (of a case) aspect
  4. (on animal) flank

Derived terms

Terms derived from side

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²siːə/, /²siːdə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse síða. Akin to English side.

Noun

side f (definite singular sida, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)

  1. a page (e.g. in a book)
    ei bok på 300 sider
    a book of 300 pages
  2. side

Derived terms

Terms derived from side

Etymology 2

Adjective

side

  1. definite singular of sid
  2. plural of sid

References

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the adjective sīd.

Adverb

sīde

  1. widely

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ, whence also Old High German sīta

Noun

sīde f

  1. side

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Late Latin sēta, whence also Old High German sīda (“silk”).

Noun

sīde f (nominative plural sīdan)

  1. silk
Synonyms

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

side

  1. inflection of suide:
    1. nominative/accusative singular masculine unstressed
    2. genitive singular feminine unstressed

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
side ṡide unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sīde, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ.

Pronunciation

Noun

side c (plural siden, diminutive sydsje)

  1. side
  2. page

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “side (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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