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say it: sahyd
side is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location". It carries 14 recorded senses.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
“they always sat on the right side of the church”
“he never left my side”
one of two or more contesting groups
“the Confederate side was prepared to attack”
game · war · politics
a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
“the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side”
a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
an elevated geological formation
“he climbed the steep slope”
“the house was built on the side of a mountain”
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 side 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.