side

CEFRA1

/ˈsaɪ̯d/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    One of the surfaces or edges of something; a position beside something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.

Examples

  • Being objective means not telling everybody whose side you are on.

  • You're by my side; everything's fine now.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈsɑɪ̯d/
  • /ˈsʌi̯d/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.

  2. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

  3. A region in a specified position with respect to something.

More examples

In context

  • Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.

  • The right side of the brain

  • A cube has six sides.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”). The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. 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.