side

n

1. border, edge, rim, margin, fringe, verge, brink, brim, skirt, flank.

2. phase, aspect, facet, angle, Inf. slant, Inf. twist; vantage point, standpoint, point of view, viewpoint, view.

3.(all of a city) quarter, section, division, precinct, part, part of town, neighborhood.

4. team, squad, string, (in baseball) nine, (in basketball) five, (in American football or soccer) eleven; party, faction, sect, caucus, wing, splinter group; interest, camp.

5. side by side

jointly, conjointly, together, cooperatively, in cooperation, in partnership; shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, hand in glove, cheek by jowl, back to back, hand in hand; in unison, in close harmony, Latin, pari passu.

adj

6. lateral, flanking, bordering, skirting.

7. oblique, indirect; sidelong, sideways, sidewise, sidewards.

8. secondary, subordinate, auxiliary; incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, nonessential, adventitious; parenthetical, tangential, by-the-way; negligible, unimportant, of little or small or no importance, inconsequential, of little or no consequence, insignificant, inconsiderable, inappreciable.

v

9. side with

join, join with, unite with, go in with, Inf. go along with, Inf. throw in with, Inf. team up with, Inf. sink or swim with