alongside

English

Alternative forms

• along side (nonstandard)

Etymology

From along +‎ side; compare alongsides.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/
• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /əˌlɔŋˈsaɪd/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /əˌlɑŋˈsaɪd/, /əˈlɑŋˌsaɪd/

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /əˌlɔŋˈsɑed/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˌlɒŋˈsaɪd/, [əˌlɔ̟ŋˈsɑe̯d]

Adverb

alongside (not comparable)

The USNS John Lenthall (left) with the USS Harry S. Truman (right) coming alongside for a fuel replenishment.

2. Along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast.

   Synonym: level

   Ahoy! Bring your boat alongside.

   All of a sudden, another car drew up alongside.

Translations

along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast — see also side by side,‎ abreast

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁邊 / 旁边 (zh) (pángbiān)

• Danish: (nautical) langskibs
• Estonian: kõrvuti
• Finnish: vieressä (fi)
• French: à côté (fr) côte à côte (fr), (nautical) par le travers (fr)
• German: längsseits (de)
• Greek: (nautical) ακοστάρισμα (el) n (akostárisma), διπλάρωμα (el) n (diplároma), πλεύρισμα (el) n (plévrisma)
• Italian: accanto (it)
• Japanese: に沿って (ja) (ni sotte)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: langskips (nautical)

• Portuguese: ao longo de, ao lado, lado a lado, à beira de
• Russian: вдоль (ru) (vdolʹ), (nautical) борт о́ борт (bort ó bort)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pódla

• Spanish: al costado, al lado (es)
• Swedish: längsmed (sv), längs (sv)

See also

• para-

Preposition

alongside

2. Side by side with.

   Synonyms: beside, next to, abreast of

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there. In the second engraving, the boat is in the act of drawing alongside the barnacled flank of a large running Right Whale, that rolls his black weedy bulk in the sea like some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. The other engraving is quite a different affair: the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in the very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside; the vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to a quay; and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity, is about giving chase to whales in the distance.

   • 2026 September 8, William DeLong, Cara Johnson, “How The RMS Olympic Narrowly Averted The Tragic Fate Of The Titanic”, in All That's Interesting‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 September 2026:

     The Titanic was built alongside the Olympic, with construction beginning in March 1909.

4. Together with or at the same time.

   The nurse worked alongside the doctor.

   • 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 August 2020:

     The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.

   • 2026 September 8, Ella Spitz, Kaleena Fraga, “Christopher Amoroso, The Port Authority Policeman Who Died Rescuing Others On 9/11”, in All That's Interesting‎^[3], archived from the original on 9 September 2026:

     He grew up in North Bergen, New Jersey, alongside his four brothers and two sisters.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:alongside.

Derived terms

• alongside of
• free alongside
• free alongside ship
• free alongside ships

Translations

side by side with — see also next to

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 旁邊 / 旁边 (zh) (pángbiān)

• Finnish: vieressä (fi), rinnalla (fi)
• French: à côté de (fr), le long de (fr), (nautical) par le travers de (fr), (nautical) bord à bord avec
• Ukrainian: по́руч з (póruč z)

together with or at the same time — see also with

• Arabic: تَزَامُنًا (tazāmunan)

  Egyptian Arabic: بالتزامن (betazamun)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一起 (zh) (yīqǐ)

• Dutch: aan de zijde van
• Esperanto: kun (eo)
• Finnish: yhdessä (fi), rinnalla (fi)
• Italian: a fianco, congiuntamente (it)
• Japanese: に沿って (ja) (ni sotte)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: langsmed

  Nynorsk: langsmed

• Portuguese: junto a, juntamente com
• Russian: вместе с (vmeste s)
• Spanish: yunto​/​juntamente​/​junto con

References

• “alongside”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.