Meaning of "side" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SIDE

Old English sīde; related to sīd wide, Old Norse sītha side, Old High German sīta.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SIDE

side  [saɪd]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SIDE

Side is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb side in English.

WHAT DOES SIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Side

Side is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78 km from Antalya) in the province of Antalya. It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.

Definition of side in the English dictionary

The first definition of side in the dictionary is a line or surface that borders anything. Other definition of side is any line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane geometric figure. Side is also either of two parts into which an object, surface, area, etc, can be divided, esp by a line, median, space, etc.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SIDE

PRESENT

Present

I side

you side

he/she/it sides

we side

you side

they side

Present continuous

I am siding

you are siding

he/she/it is siding

we are siding

you are siding

they are siding

Present perfect

I have sided

you have sided

he/she/it has sided

we have sided

you have sided

they have sided

Present perfect continuous

I have been siding

you have been siding

he/she/it has been siding

we have been siding

you have been siding

they have been siding

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sided

you sided

he/she/it sided

we sided

you sided

they sided

Past continuous

I was siding

you were siding

he/she/it was siding

we were siding

you were siding

they were siding

Past perfect

I had sided

you had sided

he/she/it had sided

we had sided

you had sided

they had sided

Past perfect continuous

I had been siding

you had been siding

he/she/it had been siding

we had been siding

you had been siding

they had been siding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will side

you will side

he/she/it will side

we will side

you will side

they will side

Future continuous

I will be siding

you will be siding

he/she/it will be siding

we will be siding

you will be siding

they will be siding

Future perfect

I will have sided

you will have sided

he/she/it will have sided

we will have sided

you will have sided

they will have sided

Future perfect continuous

I will have been siding

you will have been siding

he/she/it will have been siding

we will have been siding

you will have been siding

they will have been siding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would side

you would side

he/she/it would side

we would side

you would side

they would side

Conditional continuous

I would be siding

you would be siding

he/she/it would be siding

we would be siding

you would be siding

they would be siding

Conditional perfect

I would have side

you would have side

he/she/it would have side

we would have side

you would have side

they would have side

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been siding

you would have been siding

he/she/it would have been siding

we would have been siding

you would have been siding

they would have been siding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you side
we let´s side
you side

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to side

Past participle

sided

Present Participle

siding

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SIDE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «side» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of side

airs · ancillary · angle · area · arrogance · aspect · border · boundary · camp · cause · conceit · crew · district · edge · extraneous · extremity · face · facet · faction · feature · flank · half · incidental · indirect · insolence · irrelevant · lateral · lesser · line-up · locale · locality · margin · marginal · minor · neck of the woods · neighbourhood · opinion · part · party · perimeter · peripheral · periphery · plane · point of view · position · pretentiousness · quarter · region · rim · secondary · sector · slant · squad · standpoint · subordinate · subsidiary · surface · team · verge · vicinity · viewpoint

TRANSLATION OF SIDE

Find out the translation of side to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of side from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «side» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 侧
• Translator English - Spanish: lado
• English: side
• Translator English - Hindi: पक्ष
• Translator English - Arabic: جانِب
• Translator English - Russian: сторона
• Translator English - Portuguese: lado
• Translator English - Bengali: পাশ
• Translator English - French: côté
• Translator English - Malay: Sebelah
• Translator English - German: Seite
• Translator English - Japanese: 側
• Translator English - Korean: 측면
• Translator English - Javanese: sisih
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cạnh
• Translator English - Tamil: பக்க
• Translator English - Marathi: बाजू
• Translator English - Turkish: yan
• Translator English - Italian: lato
• Translator English - Polish: strona
• Translator English - Ukrainian: бік
• Translator English - Romanian: parte
• Translator English - Greek: πλευρά
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kant
• Translator English - Swedish: sida
• Translator English - Norwegian: side

10 QUOTES WITH «SIDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word side.

1

Waris Ahluwalia

People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

2

Hobart Alter

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

3

Beth Behrs

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

4

Saul Bellow

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

5

Ruth Benedict

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

6

Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

7

Len Cariou

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

8

Nick Clegg

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

9

Ray Comfort

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

10

Quentin Crisp

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIDE»

Discover the use of side in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to side and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror ...

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Jane Mayer, 2009

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

A journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food production.

Eric Schlosser, 2001

The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, the Nazi Holocaust) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India).

Michael Mann, 2005

On God's Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn't ...

" --Anne Lamott, author of Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers "This is the finest of all Jim Wallis's writings.

Jim Wallis, 2013

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling... he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons.

Michael Lewis, 2007

Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory ...

This study examines how people interact with those whose political views differ from their own in the context of the contemporary United States.

Diana C. Mutz, 2006

The Dark Side of Creativity

This book brings together essays written by experts from various fields (psychology, criminal justice, sociology, engineering, education, history, and design) and with different interests (personality development, mental health, deviant ...

David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley, James C. Kaufman, 2010

Walk on the Wild Side

A Walk in the Wild Side is an angry, lonely, large-hearted and often funny masterpiece that has captured the imaginations of every generation since its first publication in 1956, and that rendered a world later immortalised in Lou Reed's ...

Nelson Algren, 2006

The Man from the Other Side

Living on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, fourteen-year-old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising.

Uri Orlev, 1991

On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy from ...

Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, ...

Mel Watkins, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term side is used in the context of the following news items.

West Side water battle intensifies

The West Side Irrigation District, encompassing about 6,300 acres of farmland northwest of Tracy, received a draft cease and desist order on Thursday from the ... «Stockton Record, Jul 15»

Toddler killed in hit-and-run following South Side shooting

CHICAGO – Friends, family and community activists are mourning the loss of 13-month-old Dillan Harris after he was hit and killed by a car in the city's ... «WGN-TV, Jul 15»

'The Blind Side' football star claims the movie hurt his career

Remember The Blind Side, that feel-good weepy family drama that won ... the 2009 movie, told ESPN that The Blind Side has adversely affected his career. «USA TODAY, Jun 15»

Take a peek inside Apple's swanky new Upper East Side store in NYC

While areas of New York City's Upper East Side have been infiltrated by yuccies over the past few years, the neighborhood is still one of the city's ritziest. «Mashable, Jun 15»

Michelle Obama returns to the South Side of Chicago

CHICAGO -- First lady Michelle Obama has given her fair share of commencement addresses, but the speech she gave Tuesday night to the Class of 2015 of ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»

Upper East Side housewife's tell-all book is full of lies

A Post review of the best seller found holes big enough to drive an Escalade through. Author Wednesday Martin — whose real first name is Wendy — claims in ... «New York Post, Jun 15»

A Hobby Anthropologist Dissects the Tribes of the Upper East Side

News of the book, a memoir that presents itself as a pop ethnography of Upper East Side motherhood, immediately prompted intense reaction in part because of ... «New York Times, May 15»

Obama to Build Presidential Library on Chicago's South Side

CHICAGO—President Barack Obama will build his presidential library on Chicago's South Side, ending more than a year's search for a location by choosing the ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»

Carolina Panthers sign Michael Oher, focus of 'The Blind Side' movie

The 315-pound 28-year-old athlete was the focus of the movie “The Blind Side,” which followed Oher's rise from being a homeless teenager to becoming a ... «myfox8.com, Mar 15»

Obama Foundation poll shows support for library in South Side parks

The Barack Obama Foundation, weeks away from a decision on where to locate an Obama library, museum and academic center, polled South Side residents ... «Chicago Sun-Times, Feb 15»