Aside Definition
ə-sīd
asides
adverb
To or toward the side.
Step aside.
American Heritage
On or to one side.
Pull the curtains aside.
Webster's New World
Out of one's thoughts or mind.
Put my doubts aside.
American Heritage
Away; in reserve.
Put the book aside for me.
Webster's New World
Apart.
A day set aside for relaxing.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
noun
asides
A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.
American Heritage
Words spoken by an actor in such a way that they are heard by the audience but supposedly not by the other actors.
Webster's New World
A remark made in an undertone so as to be inaudible to others nearby.
American Heritage
A written digression.
A novelist's aside to the reader.
Webster's New World
A parenthetical departure; a digression.
American Heritage
idiom
aside from
- with the exception of
- apart from; besides
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Aside
Noun
Singular:
aside
Plural:
asidesIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Aside
Origin of Aside
-
a- + side
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