asides
uh-SYDZ/əˈsaɪdz/
- 1Plural of aside.
The actor's whispered asides drew laughter from the front rows.
Her lecture was full of witty asides about life on campus.
Note
Only the noun takes a plural: the discreet word to a neighbor, the stage line meant for the audience alone, the passing afterthought. The adverb in set aside or all joking aside never takes an -s, so "putting our differences asides" is a slip. In theater the plural counts a character's lines spoken past the others on stage. In talk and prose it counts the small tangents a speaker drops along the way.
asides is a form of aside
aside, noun: A minor related remark, dropped in almost as an afterthought. Full entry
- Forms
- asideasides plural
- Spelling
- aside → asides: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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