Side: Definition and part of speech

Side

  1. n. Long; large; extensive.
  2. n. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
  3. n. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
  4. n. One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
  5. n. The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
  6. n. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
  7. n. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
  8. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
  9. n. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
  10. a. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
  11. 1n. 1 Long; large; extensive.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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