side

Noun

side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)

1. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
   • A square has four sides.

   Synonyms:

   edge

2. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
   • A cube has six sides.
   • He said, “Where we’re at right now was back in 2008 all covered with ice. From here to there at the side, the glacier shrank about 20 to 30 meters.”

   Synonyms:

   face

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.
   • 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   half

4. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
   • Meet me on the north side of the monument.
   • 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.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
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.
   • Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
   • I generally sleep on my side.
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!

   Synonyms:

   page

7. One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
   • Look on the bright side.
   • She has a mean side (to her).
8. One set of competitors in a game.
   • Which side has kick-off?

   Synonyms:

   team

9. (Australia, Ireland, UK) A sports team.
   • Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…].1988, Ken Jones with Pat Welton Crown, Soccer skills & tactics, page 9
   • 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 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport
10. (collective) A group of morris dancers who perform together.
11. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
    • there are two sides to every question
    • Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.
12. A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
    • 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.1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, page 41

Adjective (1)

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

1. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
   • One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)
2. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
   • a side issue; a side view or remark
   • The law hath no side respect to their persons.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

Verb (1)

side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)

1. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
   • Which will you side with, good or evil?
   • 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.1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Great Place”, in Essays

   Synonyms:

   take side

2. To lean on one side.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
   • His blind eye that syded Paridell.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27
4. (obsolete, transitive) To suit; to pair; to match.
   • He had ure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted , who I think ided him1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
5. (transitive) 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) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
   • Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]1995, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 166
   • A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream.2009 March 14, Corey Mintz, “Stop and cheer chefs' dedication to quality”, in Toronto Star

Adjective (2)

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
   • 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...c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth”, in A Confutation of Unwritten Verities
   • Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.1575, Robert Laneham, “The auncient Minstrell described”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth...
2. (Scotland) Far; distant.

Adverb

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

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

Verb (2)

side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)

1. To clear, tidy or sort.
   • Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292
   • Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard.1897, Sir Hall Caine, The Manxman - Volume 2, page 304

Proper noun capitalized: Side

UK/ˈsiː.deɪ/US/ˈsi.deɪ/

Side

1. An ancient city, archaeological site, and modern town in modern Antalya Province, Turkey, on a small peninsula on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia, settled by Greeks from Cyme.