beside

From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”), equivalent to be- +‎ side. Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈsaɪd/,
• (General American) IPA^(key): /biˈsaɪd/, /bəˈsaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

beside

1. Next to; at the side of.

   A small table beside the bed

2. Not relevant to.

   That is beside the point

3. Besides; in addition.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     To all beside, as much an empty shade,
     An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.

   • April 8 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Orange Blossom"

     O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!

• Not to be confused with besides. See w:Adverbial genitive.

beside (not comparable)

1. Otherwise; else; besides.
   • 1817 (published 11 January 1818)​, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 92:

     Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
     Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
     The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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