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one side

one side noun: a place where things are stored or reserved, as in.

Noun

one side

  1. (idiomatic) A place where things are stored or reserved, as in
    • He put next year's reserved seed on one side.
    • He put some money to one side.

Interjection

one side

  1. (idiomatic) A direct, somewhat impolite demand to ask someone to move out of the way.
    • […] sign hung from the bronze knob, and it stated without equivocation that the Britannic Museum was "closed for repairs."
      But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze.
      […] out popped the gargoylish head of a...1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, March 1946 republication as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45
    • “This is no time for sympathy,” I said. “Now one side or flipper off — I gotta go to work.”1952, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Make Mine Mars

one side meaning in Tamil

one side in Tamil

உவளகம், ஒருதிறன், ஒருசார், ஏகதேசம், ஒருத்தலை, ஒருசிறை

Origin of one side

Probably short for "move to one side", that is to one side of a passageway.

Questions about one side

What does one side mean?
One side means a place where things are stored or reserved, as in.
What is one side in Tamil?
One side in Tamil is உவளகம், ஒருதிறன், ஒருசார். See One side meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is one side?
One side can be a noun or an interjection.

Words near one side in the dictionary

  1. one shot
  2. one shots
  3. one should be so lucky
  4. one should live so long
  5. one should never meet one's heroes
  6. one side
  7. one sixth
  8. one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
  9. one step ahead
  10. one step at a time
  11. one step forward, two steps back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: one side (page history and authors); one side (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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