side – English noun declension

English noun forms of side

Noun: side
Singularside
Pluralsides

Sample Sentences

  • A square has four sides.
  • A cube has six sides.
  • He said, “Where we’re at right now was back in 2008 all covered with ice. From here to there at the side, the glacier shrank about 20 to 30 meters.”
  • Which side of the tray shall I put it on?  The patient was bleeding on the right side.
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Meet me on the north side of the monument.
  • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
  • I generally sleep on my side.
  • Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting. [2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, p. 234]
  • John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
  • Look on the bright side.
  • She has a mean side (to her).
  • Which side has kick-off?
  • Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…]. [1988, Ken Jones with Pat Welton Crown, Soccer skills & tactics, page 9:]
  • It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range. [2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides, preferring instead to send touring sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and the Public School Wanderers. [2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, 3rd edition, UK, page 220:]
  • there are two sides to every question
  • Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.
  • In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.
  • "Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too," the spokesman said Kim told the meeting. [2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
  • We have not always been of the[…]same side in politics. [1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations: Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham:]
  • sets the passions on the side of truth [1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:]
  • But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market. [1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, page 41:]
  • He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
  • I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
  • Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
  • his mother's side of the family
  • To sit upon thy father David's throne, / By Mothers side thy father. [1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:]
  • Thankfully our son agreed and chose a name which, according to what I have been told is the name of the last in a long line of Rabbis on my wife's side. [2016 February 27, Sean M. Teaford, Out on the Limbs: Searching for Answers in the Family Tree, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:]
  • Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.
  • Indeed, Yeere was rapidly beginning to forget what he had been. One of his own rank and file put the matter brutally when he asked Yeere, in reference to nothing, “And who has been making you a Member of Council, lately? You carry the side of half a dozen of ’em.” [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 32:]
  • Theobald posed as the most ardent lover imaginable, but, to use the vulgarism for the moment in fashion, it was all “side.” [1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 11, in R. A. Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh:]
  • His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders. [1930, Frank Richards, “Tale-Bearer in Chief”, in The Magnet:]
  • Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor. [2010, Viola Spolin, Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, page 12:]
  • The short scenes in this book are particularly useful for audition workshops since audition sides are rarely longer than two pages. [2017, Dave Kost, Book of Sides II:]
  • My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.
  • And 9 is said to be the Square, 27 the Cube of 3, which is call'd the Side of 9 and 27, &c. [1723, Edward Wells, The Young Gentleman's Arithmetick, and Geometry, page 127:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
4. Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
5. Old English sīde
6. Middle English side
7. English side
8. From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
9. The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides. See: Middle English Nouns 'side', Old English Nouns 'sīde', Dutch Nouns 'zijde', German Nouns 'Seite', Swedish Nouns 'sida'.

Verbs referencing "side"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns side, German Nouns Seite.