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aside

aside

463 4.1
Not including something when you think about a situation
  • adverb
  • /əˈsaɪd/
translation icon : aparte de
  • Aside from the three of us, no one upstairs knows martial arts.
  • aside from the obvious
  • political agendas aside
  • scientific validity aside

That's, I mean all the other stuff aside, it just ready.

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Examples

  • But even setting that aside, there are two further problems with the view.

    Academic text (1999)
  • How do you like your school overall, aside from this incident?

  • We'll leave that aside for the moment.

  • Now, aside from food, what are your expenses?

  • Yet, aside from these few areas mentioned, this region has not been extensively surveyed until now.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Encourage pupils to put the work aside for reexamination and further editing on the following day.

    Academic text (1990)
  • And my very first job as a teenager (aside from babysitting) was at our local county library.

    Academic text (2011)
  • How do you like your school overall, aside from this incident?

  • We'll leave that aside for the moment.

  • Aside from the three of us, no one upstairs knows martial arts.

Synonyms

apart
vsaside
253 1.0

Except for something or someone

is used after a noun or clause to exclude it from consideration

Antonyms

Made after careful thought

1.0

Comes with something else in the same package

Compounds

1 4.9

Kept in advance for a particular use or person

Surface Forms

aside positive

Morphology

aside = side (semi-transparent) = a + side

The idea of moving something to the side motivates the meaning, but 'exclude from consideration' is a figurative discourse use rather than a literal spatial one.

Etymology

In phrases like 'aside from', aside breaks into a- 'on' and side 'side', which gives the image of putting something 'to the side'; that's why 'aside from' means 'apart from' or not taken into account.