Alongside

Definition: Alongside

Alongside

Adverb

1. Side by side; "anchored close aboard another ship".

Date "alongside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty. In charter parties, means that ship is so close to wharf or lighter that cargo can be transferred from one to the other by tackles. Source: European Union. (references)
Shipping	A phrase referring to the side of a ship. Goods delivered "alongside" are to be placed on the dock or barge within reach of the transport ship's tackle so that they can be loaded. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Alongside

Synonym: aboard (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Laterality	Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends.
Nearness	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; Noun: 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; Noun: 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; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.
Parallelism	Adverb: alongside; (laterally).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

We are proud to fight alongside Men once again (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

They'll stick me alongside the Piltdown forgeries as a horrid warning (Quatermass and the Pit; writing credit: Nigel Kneale)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Alongside the child in the primary school (reference) Alongside the Person in Pain Holistic Care and Nursing Practice (reference) Beyond Chaos: One Man's Journey Alongside His Chronically Ill Wife (reference) Commodore's Barge is Alongside (reference) Guide to Contingency Planning for the Gas Carrier Alongside and Within Port Limits (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Tied up alongside salmon-rearing pens for transfer of smolts to the JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Fishing vessel alongside. Credit: Fisheries.
	The PACIFIC VIKING alongside at Dutch Harbor. Credit: Fisheries.		A heron sits on the dock alongside the water. Numerous species of herons live and roost in the waters that surround Tampa Bay. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
	Launch alongside NOAA Ship DAVID STARR JORDAN passing marine turtle aboard for. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Instrument intercomparison with the Indian R/V SAGAR KANYA during INDOEX (RB-99-02). The rigid-hull inflatable boat from the RONALD H. BROWN is tied up alongside the SAGAR KANYA. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Harvesting corn alongside a restored wetland in Kossuth County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe.		Corn harvest alongside a conservation buffer and restored wetland in Kossuth County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe.
	Alongside prickly pear cacti and small trees, the century plants stalk is in full bloom. Credit: Beth Perault.		Cacti and other desert plants growing alongside a road in the Grand Canyon-Parshant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The truck pulled alongside the road and Al leaned out the window
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Various seminars and conferences took place alongside the event. (references)
		The company copied the U.S. quick service hamburger concept, adding alongside a few traditional Greek favored items. (references)
		Australia prides itself on offering equitable provision of health services to citizens in the vast and remote rural areas alongside their urban cousins. (references)
Children	Sierra Leone	Up to an estimated 5,000 child soldiers at a time served alongside adults on both sides during the civil conflict, but in greater numbers on the RUF side; some observers place the number at almost double that figure. (references)
Civil Liberties	Poland	Private radio flourishes on the local, regional, and national levels alongside public radio. (references)
	Haiti	Voodoo, a traditional religion derived in part from West African beliefs, is practiced alongside Christianity by a large segment of the population. (references)
Economic History	Zambia	Mining centers on copper and cobalt (cobalt is often found alongside copper). (references)
	Nepal	RNA units have served with distinction alongside American forces in places such as Haiti, Iraq, and Somalia. (references)
	Slovenia	Alongside NATO partners, the U.S. will continue to work with Slovenia in support of its membership aspirations. (references)
Human Rights	Afghanistan	A number of incidents were reported in which Taliban soldiers, persons masquerading as Taliban, or foreign volunteers fighting alongside the Taliban, entered private homes without prior notification or informed consent. (references)
	Japan	However, in June the Government's Judicial Reform Council recommended in its final report that randomly chosen members of the public be allowed to participate in determining rulings and penalties in criminal trials by deliberating the cases alongside professional judges. (references)
	Bolivia	The military justice case against alleged sharpshooter Captain Robinson Iriarte Lafuente, who was videotaped by television news organizations in civilian clothes kneeling alongside troops and firing a rifle during the April 2000 disturbances in Cochabamba, was pending at year's end. (references)
Minorities	Portugal	The laws also provided for the creation of a Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination to work alongside the High Commissioner for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities. (references)
Political Economy	EL SALVADOR	The law mandated that for a transition period the dollar will circulate alongside the Salvadoran colon and fixed the exchange rate at 8.75 colons to the dollar. (references)
	East Timor	In July 2000, the first group of 50 East Timorese cadets graduated from the Police Academy and began working alongside CIVPOL, augmented by a police assistance group comprised of East Timorese who formerly were part of the Indonesian police forces. (references)
Trade	Ukraine	Equity stake alongside Sweden's Cerealia food group to support the expansion of Boryspil, Ukrainian leading breakfast cereal company. (references)
	Eritrea	The Housing and Commerce Bank, the Development Bank, and the Commercial Bank of Eritrea operate alongside the Central Bank of Eritrea. (references)
	India	The 'prohibited import' status of any item is noted alongside the item listing in the Indian Trade Classification (Harmonized System Book), notified by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade. (references)
Travel	Belgium	The phase-in of Euro notes and coins will take place alongside local notes and coins until February 29, 2002. Beginning March 1, only Euros will be accepted as legal tender for commercial and consumer use. (references)
Women	Afghanistan	There were unconfirmed reports that the Taliban, or foreign "volunteers" fighting alongside the Taliban, abducted women during the military offensive on Taloqan and elsewhere in 2000. There also were unconfirmed reports that Taliban soldiers or foreign volunteers abducted women in the offensive in the Shomali plains in 1999 and that they raped and abducted women from Hazara neighborhoods in Mazar-i-Sharif in August 1998. The whereabouts of some of these women was unknown at year's end. (references)
Worker Rights	Bangladesh	Children often work alongside other family members in small-scale and subsistence agriculture. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	We need to let those who repulse us have their say alongside those whose speeches make us rise to our feet in applause.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Alongside" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 82.57% of the time. "Alongside" is used about 3,291 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Preposition (except "of")	82.57%	2,717	3,377
Adverb (general)	17.43%	573	11,009
Total	100.00%	3,291	N/A

Expressions using "alongside": ad alongside ♦ alongside come ♦ alongside of ♦ come alongside ♦ draw alongside ♦ free alongside ship value ♦ pull alongside. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "alongside"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		langs (at, beside, by, near, near to, nearby, next, next to). (various references)

Albanian		anash (askance, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sideways, wide), pranë (about, alongside of, beside, by, hard by, near, near at hand, nearby, next, next to, nigh, over, past, thereby). (various references)

Arabic		‏جنبا إلى جنب (abreast), ‏بجانب (beside, by). (various references)

Bulgarian		успоредно, един до друг (abreast, cheek by jowl, side by side, together), борд до борд, близо до (by, near, nearby, next, nigh), при (about, at, beside, by, during, given, in, on, to, under, unto, with), покрай (along, beside, by, in addition to, past), до него, до (as far as, at, beside, do, ere, next, next to, over, pending, prior to, to, until, unto). (various references)

Chinese		在﹍旁邊 , 沿着, 並肩 (abreast, shoulder to shoulder, side by side). (various references)

Czech		tìsnì vedle, podél (along, by, endways, endwise, lengthways, up). (various references)

Danish		ved skibssiden, på siden af. (various references)

Dutch		naast (at, beside, besides, by, near, near to, nearby, nearest, next, next to), behalve (apart from, beside, besides, but, except, except for, next to, other than). (various references)

Esperanto		flanke de (beside, next to). (various references)

Farsi		پهلوبه پهلوی , تاکنار, درپهلو. (various references)

Finnish		vieressä (at, beside, by, from close by, from the side of, near, near to, nearby, next to), kyljittäin, kyljessä. (various references)

French		accosté, le long du bord, le long de (along), côté à côté, à côté de. (various references)

Frisian		njonken (beside, next to), nêst (beside, next to). (various references)

German		längsseits, neben (apart from, aside from, at, beneath, beside, besides, by, close by, compared to, compared with, near, near to, nearby, next, next to, para). (various references)

Greek		κατά μήκοσ τησ πλευράσ, κατά μήκος της πλευράς του πλοίου, πλευρισμένοσ, παρπλεύρως, παραπλευρώσ (abreast, beside), δίπλα (beside, by, doubly). (various references)

Hebrew		על יד (by, close by, near, next to), בד בבד (step by step with), בצד (aside). (various references)

Hungarian		hosszában (all along, along, endlong, endways, endwise, fore-and-aft, lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise). (various references)

Indonesian		di sisi, di samping (beside). (various references)

Italian		accanto (beside, near, near by, nearby, next, next to, nigh, past), a fianco di (beside). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		船側渡し (free alongside ship), 着ける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to load, to make an entry, to place, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to stick, to wear), 接岸 (coming alongside a pier or quay), 横付け (coming alongside), 付ける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to load, to make an entry, to place, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to stick, to wear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つける (to add, to affix, to append, to apply, to appraise, to attach, to bring alongside, to dip in, to establish, to fasten, to follow, to furnish, to give, to glue, to join, to keep, to keep a diary, to light up, to load, to make an entry, to moisten, to pickle, to place, to put, to put on, to set, to sew on, to shadow, to soak, to stick, to switch on, to turn on, to wear), せつがん (coming alongside a pier or quay, entreaty, steep, supplication), せんそくわたし (free alongside ship), よこづけ (coming alongside). (various references)

Korean		나란히 (Abreast). (various references)

Manx		cur liorish. (various references)

Pig Latin		alongsideay.(various references)

Portuguese		ao lado de (along, beside, beyond, by, on the side of). (various references)

Romanian		alãturi de (by, by the side of, next), alãturi (abreast, by, close aboard, together), acostat, bord la bord. (various references)

Russian		рядом (adjacently, at one's elbow, cheek by jowl, interproximally, near by, nearby, next door, nigh, round the corner, side by side, side-by-side). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uzduž (along, down, endlong, lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise), pored (along, alongside of, bedside, beside, besides, by, close to, near, next to, notwithstanding, past, spite: in spite of). (various references)

Spanish		al lado de (along, at the side of, beside, by, from, next, next door to, next to), al lado (aside, beside, by, next door), al costado de un buque, a lo largo de (along, through, throughout), junto a (about, beside, close to, next), de costado (broadside, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise). (various references)

Swedish		långsides. (various references)

Thai		จูง (เรือ) เข้าไปใกล้ (lay alongside). (various references)

Turkish		yanında (at the side of, beside, by, by the side of, close by, hard, in one's hearing, nearby), yanı sıra (along), yan yana (abreast, adjoining, at close quarters, cheek by jowl, side by side), borda bordaya. (various references)

Ukrainian		біля борту, біля (against, anigh, around, at, by, near, nearly, next, on, round), поруч (abreast, adjacently, against, anear, by, close, hard by, nigh, side by side, unto), поблизу (about, anear, anigh, around, aside, beside, by, hereabout, hereabouts, hereby, near, nearby, nigh, thereabout, thereabouts, thereby), пліч-о-пліч (shoulder to shoulder, side by side). (various references)

Welsh		wrth ochr (beside). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	ús-sa-rá, zag. (various references)
Akkadian	3000 BCE-Modern	itû. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adnavigavimus, secus. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	onemn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Alongside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alfonsine, aloneside, alongide, avonside, longside. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alongside" (pronounced ulô'ngsī"d)
3	-s ī" d	aside, beside, coincide, decide, inside, outside, side, sighed, Stateside, subside, upside.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: agonised, dealings, diagnose, gasoline, leadings, loadings, sidelong, signaled.
	-2 letters: agonies, agonise, aligned, anisole, dangles, dealing, denials, dialogs, dingles, dingoes, dongles, eloigns, engilds, ganoids, geoidal, glandes, glenoid, goalies, indoles, isolead, ladings, ladinos, lagends, leading, leasing, legions, ligands, linages, lingoes, loading, longies, sealing, singled, slanged, snailed, soilage.
	-3 letters: adonis, agones, aisled, aldose, algins, algoid, aliens.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-l-n-o-s"
	+1 letter: desolating, girandoles, sloganized.
	+2 letters: delegations, diagnosable, dragonflies, gadolinites, ganglioside, grandiosely.
	+3 letters: cladogenesis, desolatingly, diagnoseable, diagonalizes, digressional, gangliosides, goaltendings, slaveholding.
	+4 letters: chalcogenides, deflagrations, deglaciations, degringolades, deregulations, glucuronidase, slaveholdings, undiagnosable.
	+5 letters: bildungsromane, degranulations, dogmaticalness, glucuronidases, peptidoglycans.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
alongside	2
alongside daddy hand hold little walk	2
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Alongside

Definition: Alongside

Alongside

Adverb

Specialty Definition: Alongside

Synonym: Alongside

Synonyms within Context: Alongside

Laterality

Nearness

Parallelism

Crosswords: Alongside

Modern Usage: Alongside

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Alongside

Books

Photo Album: Alongside

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Use in Literature: Alongside

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Alongside

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Alongside

Dennis Miller

Usage Frequency: Alongside

Expressions: Alongside

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alongside

Modern Translation: Alongside

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Ancestral Language Translations: Alongside

Misspellings: Alongside

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Alongside"

Anagrams: Alongside

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