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alongside

adv
/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/UK/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/US/əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/CA/əˌlɔŋˈsɑed/

Etymology

From along + side; compare alongsides.

  1. derived from *sēy-✻ — “to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”
  2. inherited from *sīdaz✻ — “drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”
  3. inherited from *sīd✻
  4. inherited from sīd — “wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”
  5. inherited from side
  6. compounded as alongside — “along + side”

Definitions

  1. Along the side

    Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.

    • Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.
    • All of a sudden, another car drew up alongside.

  2. Side by side with.

  3. Together with or at the same time.

    • The nurse worked alongside the doctor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at alongside. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at alongside. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at alongside

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA