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Definition of Side by side

1. Adjective. Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space. "Our rooms were side by side"

2. Adjective. Closely related or associated. "A city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"

Definition of Side by side

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of side-by-side) ¹

2. Adverb. close to each other, together ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Side By Side

side-lock side-locks side-look side-necked turtle side-netting side-saddle side-scroller side-scrollers side-slip side-splitting

side-to-side side-wheel side-wheeler side-whiskers side arm side by side (current term) side by side(p) side center side chain side chair

side chapel side chest side chests side dish side dishes side door side drum side effect side effects side entrance

Literary usage of Side by side

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... its flat or convex (outer) side looking forwards, so that the two lobes or cusps are almost side by side, instead of anterior and posterior. ..."

2. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"If, of two persons side by side, one desired to listen to music and the other to sleep, it could be made audible to one and inaudible to another. ..."

3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Upspringing to his call, they donn'd their arms ; And fighting men and drivers, side by side, 160 Mounted their chariots ; in procession march'd The ..."

4. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"Thus side by side Blindly alighted,. They seemed united As groom and bride, Who'd not communed For many years— Lives from twain- spheres With hearts ..."

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