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SIDEBAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sidebar mean?
• SIDEBAR (noun)
The noun SIDEBAR has 2 senses:
1. (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing
2. a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
Familiarity information: SIDEBAR used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sidebar" is a kind of...):
consultation (a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sidebar" is a kind of...):
news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)
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