aside
About 23.79 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.
- adjective Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.
- noun An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
- noun A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.
- noun A minor related mention, an afterthought.
Similar words
away apart digression divagation excursus by parenthesis off out aloof
Often followed by
from the for and to as a by in
Word family
asides
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