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.

Appears in

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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