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beside
[ bih-sahyd ]
preposition
- by or at the side of; near:
Sit down beside me.
- compared with:
Beside him other writers seem amateurish.
- apart from; not connected with:
beside the point; beside the question.
adverb
- along the side of something:
The family rode in the carriage, and the dog ran along beside.
beside
/ ɪˈɪ /
preposition
- next to; at, by, or to the side of
- as compared with
- away from; wide of
beside the point
- archaic.besides
- beside oneselfpostpositiveoften foll bywith overwhelmed; overwrought
beside oneself with grief
adverb
- at, by, to, or along the side of something or someone
Confusables Note
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of beside1
Idioms and Phrases
- beside oneself, almost out of one's senses from a strong emotion, as from joy, delight, anger, fear, or grief:
He was beside himself with rage when the train left without him.
Example Sentences
When the ambulances stopped beside the Hamas car, the soldiers assumed they were under threat and opened fire, despite no evidence any of the emergency team was armed.
The session was stopped twice because grass beside the Suzuka track caught alight, once early in the session and once seven minutes before the scheduled end.
Sitting beside him, Le Pen said a "nuclear bomb" had been used used against the RN to stop the party getting into power.
“I don’t come unless I’m called,” the woman explains to Ramona, as Okpokwasili cuts a regal, gothic figure of steely poise, practically engulfing Deadwyler merely by sitting beside her.
A 14-year-old boy in a denim jacket sat next to his aunt, whose teenage daughter was texting beside her.
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