sideway

Questions about sideway

What does sideway mean?

sideway means "with one side forward or to the front". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sideway?

sideway has 3 syllables: si-de-way. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for sideway?

Close synonyms include sideways, sidewise, sideways, sidewise, sideways. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sideway a common word?

sideway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.