1 to one side; out of the way:
She pulled the curtain aside. * Stand aside and let these people pass. * He took me aside (= away from a group of people) to give me some advice. * (figurative) Leaving aside (= not considering at this stage) the cost of the scheme, let us examine its benefits. * All our protests were brushed aside (= ignored).
2 to be used later:
We set aside some money for repairs.
3 used after nouns to say that except for one thing, sth is true:
Money worries aside, things are going well.
Part of speech: noun
1 (in the theatre) something which a character in a play says to the audience, but which the other characters on stage are not intended to hear:
Shakespeare's use of asides and soliloquies
2 a remark, often made in a low voice, which is not intended to be heard by everyone present:
He made several mocking asides about the inadequacy of women.
3 a remark that is not directly connected with the main subject that is being discussed:
I mention it only as an aside...
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for aside is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is aside a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, aside is tagged as adverb.
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