SIDE BY SIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does side by side mean? 

• SIDE BY SIDE (adjective)
  The adjective SIDE BY SIDE has 2 senses:

1. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space

2. closely related or associated

  Familiarity information: SIDE BY SIDE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDE BY SIDE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space

Synonyms:

adjacent; next; side by side

Context example:

our rooms were side by side

Similar:

close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Closely related or associated

Context example:

a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side

Similar:

related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)

 Context examples 

I never was so pleased as when I saw those two sit down together, side by side.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It would take about 300-1,000 viruses lined up side by side to equal the width of a human hair.

(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)

After that they ran side by side, like good friends who have come to an understanding.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And Buck ran with them, side by side with the wild brother, yelping as he ran.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then he stumbled upon Gayley's "Classic Myths" and Bulfinch's "Age of Fable," side by side on a library shelf.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

One of the two side by side replicas produced by chromosome replication in mitosis or meiosis.

(Chromatid, NCI Thesaurus)

“And still no more dead men,” I twitted Louis, when Smoke and Henderson, side by side, in friendly conversation, took their first exercise on deck.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

One of two small oblong bones placed side by side at the middle and upper part of the face.

(Nasal Bone, NCI Thesaurus)

Two easy chairs stood side by side at the head of the table, in which sat Beth and her father, feasting modestly on chicken and a little fruit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)