aside meaning
EN[əˈsaɪd] [-aɪd]US
WAside
- An "aside" is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage.
- NounPLasidesPREa-SUF-side
- Adverb
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Wolves swept aside Championship outfit Doncaster at Molineux to earn a place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.
- 1962: The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
- Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- So much menace, so much studied tonelessness and unmusicality — and on the part of so young a virtuoso — is disturbing, to say the least, and it comes a relief when he lays it aside.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of aside in English Dictionary
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- en asides
- en asideness
- en aside from
Source: Wiktionary