side

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One of the flat outer surfaces of an object.

   I turned the box over to examine the bottom side.

2. 2
   noun

   The left or right part of something, or the area near its edge.

   After running a few blocks, I had a pain in my side.

3. 3
   noun

   One of the people or groups in an argument, contest, or war.

   There are two sides to every argument.

4. 4
   noun

   One way of looking at or considering something.

   You have to look at both the good and bad sides of the plan.

Common collocations

• change sides Verb + noun
• take sides Verb + noun

From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).

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