alongside
/əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.45 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.
prep
Side by side with.
prep
Example Sentences
- "Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside."
- "All of a sudden, another car drew up alongside."
- "I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there. In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. The other engraving is quite a different affair: the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in the very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to a quay; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity, is about giving chase to whales in the distance."
- "The nurse worked alongside the doctor."
- "The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov."
- "Growing up, she had a happy, relatively normal childhood as the youngest of three children in a tight-knit family in Durham, North Carolina, alongside her older sister, Kara, and her older brother, Heath."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/
- British English: /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/