Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Along, near, at, or to the side: stood with a bodyguard alongside; honked and drove up alongside.
- prep. By the side of; side by side with.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Along or by the side; at or to the side of anything, as a ship: as, to be alongside of the wall.
- Beside; by the side of: as, the vessel lay alongside the wharf.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with
of
WordNet 3.0
- adv. side by side
Etymologies
- along + side (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He tells the world that his art has raised him to the level of divine Michelangelo, and the world places his name alongside Michelangelo, and Da Vinci, and anyone else he cares to suggest.”
“Alexander Wang, who bagged Accessory Designer of the Year, said, It's such an honor ... to even just have my name alongside names such as Marc's is enough of an acknowledgment for me.”
“As yet, no post mortem had been done on David Rushton, but she also wanted his name alongside the other four victims.”
“And when his lease went up for renewal in December, I summoned all my courage to sign my name alongside his on the new one.”
“They have no trouble finding the license plate number from the car outside, or matching it with the name alongside it, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holt from Cleveland, Michigan.”
“The reality star, who made his name alongside Goodger in The Only Way Is Essex, opened up to Lorraine Chase and Crissy Rock.”
“Mickelson begins his defence of the title alongside Australia's Geoff Ogilvy and, in keeping with tradition at the event, American amateur champion Peter Uihlein.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“It's not every day you see a Protestant minister preaching the word alongside a jazz saxophonist.”
“Friends, neighbors or parents in his hometown of Caldwell, Texas, can go online to view the public sex offender registry and see his name alongside those of rapists, child molesters and child pornographers.”
“Even Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, used the phrase alongside a promise of "no new taxes" when he successfully convinced Standard & Poor's to upgrade the debt rating of the state in 2005.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alongside’.
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all sides
sidecar, sidekick, sided, sidelong, sider, sideline, sidewise, sideways, sidetrack, sideslip, sidestep, sidepiece and 103 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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manatee's Words
coagulate, skint, treble, warp and woof, nonplussed, swordfish, arboretum, lemoyne, acme, manatee, asshole, schmuck and 7 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 112
hop, grab, rip, waylay, tale, alongside, trick, sticker, bumper, lean, pursuit, rear and 38 more...
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my words
sustain, aggregate, alongside, unsubstantiated, brutal, cruel, ruthless, deem, noteworthy, stuff, confidence, evangelist and 17 more...
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