Synonyms for beside
bɪˈsaɪdbe·side

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1. beside

   Adjacent farms may not be connected; if adjoining, they meet at the boundary-line. Conterminous would imply that their dimensions were exactly equal on the side where they adjoin. Contiguous may be used for either adjacent or adjoining. Abutting refers rather to the end of one building or estate than to the neighborhood of another. Buildings may be adjacent or adjoining that are not attached. Near is a relative word, places being called near upon the railroad which would elsewhere be deemed remote. Neighboring always implies such proximity that the inhabitants may be neighbors. Next views some object as the nearest of several or many; next neighbor implies a neighborhood.

   Synonyms:
   abutting, adjacent, adjoining, attached, bordering, close, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, near, neighboring, next, nigh

   Antonyms:
   detached, disconnected, disjoined, distant, remote, separate

   Preposition:
   The farm was adjacent to the village.

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1. beside

   Synonyms:
   close, near, alongside, additionally, over and above, together, moreover

   Antonyms:
   separate, apart, inclusively

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1. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   near, close to, at the side of, by the side of

2. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from

3. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to

4. besideprep.

   Synonyms:
   out of, not in possession of

5. besideadjective

   Synonyms:
   moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition

6. besideadjective

   Synonyms:
   else

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1. List of paraphrases for "beside":

   alongside, besides, near

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1. Huang Chin-shun:

   I thought something's wrong with the engine because I always take this flight, there was a girl beside me, and I told her to quickly release her safety belt, hold on tight to the chair in front, and cover her head with clothes.

2. Manu Mannoor:

   As I mentioned, bacteria possess many other properties beside the electricity production, for example there are plenty bacteria in the human body that perform many functions.

3. Charles Krauthammer:

   The fact we focus on one or the other is beside the point.

4. Karim Khan:

   Those bodies that are in those bags on the screen are not fake. I've seen them. I stood beside them. The issue is how did they die, who is responsible and in what circumstances?

5. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:

   I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.