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aisled

aisled

6.5
With walkways between rows of seats or shelves
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪld/
translation icon : con pasillos
  • During the concert, the aisled seats made it easier for the audience to navigate through rows.

Examples

  • The theater was filled with aisled seating, allowing everyone a clear view of the stage.

  • The last time Joseph had sat in one of these uncomfortable aisled seats was over this past summer, when his own Naomi had attended Yomi, the Y's Day Camp, and he and his wife had proudly watched as the kid and the rest of her interpretive movement class had wiggled acorns growing into trees.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • The supermarket organized its products in aisled displays for better shopper accessibility.

Surface Forms

aisled positive

Morphology

aisled = aisle (transparent) = aisle + ed

Formed by the noun 'aisle' plus the adjectival/past-participle suffix '-ed', meaning 'having aisles', which is directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Aisled comes from an old Latin root ala that means 'wing', and passed into English as aisle. Think of an aisle as a 'wing' or side passage next to the main space, so an aisled building has one or more side passages for people to walk through.