Definition of Side by side

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

Exact synonyms: Adjacent, Next
Similar to: Close
Derivative terms: Adjacency

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

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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