aisle
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1.5
- noun
- /aɪl/
:
pasillo
- She's walking down, the father's walking her down the aisle at her wedding.
- walk down the aisle
- a supermarket aisle
- narrow aisles
My wife is across the aisle and sitting next to Chloe.
- My wife is across the aisle and sitting next to Chloe.
- Enjoying life, walking down the aisle, going to meet my wife.
- Don't carry a coffee down the aisle of a moving Acela Amtrak train.
- My fiance hasn't objection to women walking down the aisle towards the man.
- When Sophia Richie walked down the aisle, he he was singing Wow.
- So now I'm looking as the attendants are racing down the aisles for hints of nervousness.
- Trump scanned the Rose to his left as he walked down the center aisle, pursing his lips.
Examples
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The children raced down the aisle between the rows of chairs during the event.
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For the bride's walk down the aisle, Modesta let out all the stops.
Fiction book (1990) -
I start to move down the aisle to pick up their work.
Fiction book (1990) -
When a woman gets married, her father walks her down the aisle and gives her away.
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My wife is across the aisle and sitting next to Chloe.
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As I stood at the front of the aisle, I saw two empty seats.
Fiction book (1990) -
One of my earliest memories is walking down the aisle on the train while the whole company was playing cards and drinking and joking.
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Hank sees Billie coming down the aisle and steps off the stage.
Fiction book (1990) -
The supermarket has a wide aisle with neatly arranged shelves on both sides.
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She walked down the aisle to find her seat for the concert.
Synonyms
295
2.5
A long narrow passage inside a building with doors to rooms on both sides
50
3.2
A long narrow space that connects rooms or parts of a building
3
5.0
A passage between rows of seats or shelves for people to walk
Idioms
- Literature
1
6.5
To work with members of the other party, often by voting with them
An announcement in a store asking staff to clean a mess in an aisle right away
Compounds
- Specialized
A large airplane with two aisles that divide seats into three sections
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Aisle comes from the Latin word ala, meaning 'wing', and it passed into Old French as a word for the side part of a building. So an aisle is like a 'wing' or side passage, which is why we use it for the walk between rows of seats or shelves.