beside

• POS: Preposition, Adverb
• HYPHEN: be=side
• COUNT in NET: 81 in 80 verses (in OT : 75 in 74 verses) (in NT : 6 in 6 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

beside, prep. [OE. biside, bisiden, bisides, prep. and adv., beside, besides; pref. be- by + side. Cf. Besides, and see Side, n.].

•  At the side of; on one side of.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Aside from; out of the regular course or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of.  [1913 Webster]

  "[You] have done enough
  To put him quite beside his patience."  [1913 Webster]
•  Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.

  "[In this use besides is now commoner.]"  [1913 Webster]

  "See Moreover."  [1913 Webster]

  "Wise and learned men beside those whose names are in the Christian records."  [1913 Webster]

  "Paul, thou art beside thyself."  [1913 Webster]

  "Lovely Thais sits beside thee."  [1913 Webster]

  "Only be patient till we have appeased
  The multitude, beside themselves with fear."  [1913 Webster]

  "It is beside my present business to enlarge on this speculation."  [1913 Webster]

  "Besides this, there are persons in certain situations who are expected to be charitable."  [1913 Webster]

  "And, besides, the Moor
  May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril."  [1913 Webster]

  "That man that does not know those things which are of necessity for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides."  [1913 Webster]

To be beside one's self, to be out of one's wits or senses.

Syn. -- Beside, Besides.

beside, adv. [OE. Same as beside, prep.; the ending -s is an adverbial one, prop. a genitive sign.].

•  On one side.  Chaucer. Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.  [1913 Webster]

  " These sentences may be considered as elliptical."  [1913 Webster]

  "The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides ?"  [1913 Webster]

  "To all beside, as much an empty shade,
  An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

beside, prep.
1 at the side of; near.
2 compared with.
3 irrelevant to (beside the point).

Idiom

beside oneself overcome with worry, anger, etc.

Etymology

OE be sidan (as BY, SIDE)

THESAURUS

beside

abeam, above, abreast, additionally, again, agitated, all included, along by, alongside, also, altogether, among other things, and all, and also, and so, apart from, as compared with, as well, aside, aside from, au reste, away from, bar, barring, besides, beyond, but, by, by comparison with, close to, compared with, crazy, else, en plus, ex, except, except for, excepting, excluding, exclusive of, extra, farther, for lagniappe, further, furthermore, hard by, in addition, in apposition, in comparison with, in conjunction, in juxtaposition, inter alia, into the bargain, item, leaving out, let alone, likewise, mad, more, moreover, near, nearby, next to, nigh, off, omitting, on the side, on top of, opposite, outside of, over, over against, over and above, overwrought, plus, precluding, round, save, save and except, saving, similarly, taken with, than, then, therewith, to boot, too, unless, upset, with, without, yet

ROGET THESAURUS

beside

Unconformity

N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.