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aside

  • adverb
  • /əˈsaɪd/

To or on one side so as to be out of the way.

Example

“Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.”

Other meanings

  1. Excluded from consideration.

Related words

  • asideness
  • aside from
  • pull one aside
  • put aside
  • set aside
  • step aside
  • take one aside
  • brush aside
  • cast aside
  • lay aside
  • pull aside
  • set-aside

Word history

From Old English "on sīdan".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “aside” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.