beside
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beside/bɪˈsʌɪd/
▶preposition
- 1 at the side of; next to.
■ compared with.
- 2 in addition to; apart from.
– phrases
beside oneself distraught.
beside oneself distraught.
– origin OE be sīdan (adv.) ‘by the side’.
'beside' also found in these Oxford entries:
bank
- bedside
- by
- carport
- carse
- Creek
- cue card
- esplanade
- graveyard
- milestone
- next
- opposite
- palfrey
- para-
- paracellular
- parallelepiped
- parameter
- paraselene
- parenchyma
- parenthesis
- parergon
- parhelion
- parish
- parody
- paronomasia
- parotid
- penalty box
- point
- ringside
- roadside
- signal box
- supporter
- toast
- towpath
- wake
- wicket
