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Definition of Aisle
1. Noun. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
2. Noun. Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores.
3. Noun. Part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns.
Definition of Aisle
1. n. A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
Definition of Aisle
1. Noun. A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers ¹
2. Noun. A clear path through rows of seating. ¹
3. Noun. A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale. ¹
4. Noun. Any path through an otherwise obstructed space. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aisle
1. a passageway between sections of seats [n -S] : AISLED [adj]
Medical Definition of Aisle
1. A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall. Improperly used also for the have; as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle. Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open. Origin: OF. Ele, F. Aile, wing, wing of a building, L. Ala, contr. Fr. Axilla. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aisle
Literary usage of Aisle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"on the right hand side of the Broad aisle.—Mass. Spy, May 20. 1825 Right under
the middle of our new meetin'-house ; in the Jonathan,' ii. 19. ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1885)
"To carry the thrust of this vault at the middle of the choir, a flying buttress
was thrown over the north aisle from a great buttress built outside it. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"present sou'h aisle built. Unfortunately the early windows were destroyed ...
Certain alterations had also been made in the south aisle, which have now been ..."
4. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The north aisle of the choir, or the space extending from the north aisle of the
... His memorial is against one side of a pillar on the right of the aisle ..."
5. Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk by John Gibson Lockhart (1820)
"Nay, even within the aisle itself, the squeeze of ministers and el^rs, ...
The Assembly aisle 'is a square apartment, vaulted over- bead like the rest of ..."
6. The Cathedral Church of Gloucester: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief by Henri Jean Louis Joseph Massé (1898)
"North aisle.—This aisle retains its original Norman vaulting. ... The door into
the cloister at the west end of the aisle contains some very fine work. ..."
7. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England by Richard John King (1903)
"This, with the vestry eastward of it, was either, as Mr. Walbran has suggested,
built over the aisle, or, as other archaeologists suppose, the choir, ..."
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