Loading page
say it: uh-SAHYD
aside is an adverb and noun meaning "on or to one side". It carries 8 recorded senses.
on or to one side
“step aside”
“stood aside to let him pass”
“threw the book aside”
“put her sewing aside when he entered”
out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)
“brush the objections aside”
“pushed all doubts away”
not taken into account or excluded from consideration
“these problems apart, the country is doing well”
“all joking aside, I think you're crazy”
in a different direction
“turn aside”
“turn away one's face”
“glanced away”
placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
“had a feeling of being set apart”
“quality sets it apart”
“a day set aside for relaxing”
a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
a message that departs from the main subject
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aside come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.